New SATA drive, problems booting up

[gdblatz]

I bought a new Seagate Barracude 7200.7 SERIAL ATA 120GB drive. I went throught the XP setup and managed to get the OS installed (pressing f6 to load additional drivers). I did this all with the Old PATA drive still connected because I wanted to transfer over some files to the new Seagate.

Then when i removed the old PATA drive windows will not boot. I get the message "Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press Enter"

If i reconnect the old PATA drive and try and boot, I get the multiple operating systems window where i can choose which drive to boot from. Both work fine at this point.

Any help to resolve this problem would be appreciated.

Thanks


MoBo : DFI INFINITY NFORCE2 ULTRA400 SOCKETA
HD : Seagate Barracude 7200.7 SERIAL ATA 120GB

 

[LeetestUnleet]

It's likely that the SATA drive does not contain the boot.ini - the easiest way is to fix it with Partition Magic, or you could try to do it manually.

 

[Balt]

Also try checking your BIOS to make sure that the SATA drive is set as the system/boot/whatever drive. I had a problem that was kind of the opposite of yours. As soon as installed a PATA drive (after installing XP to my SATA drive) the BIOS automatically set it as the system drive and I got the same "Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press Enter" error.

 

[gdblatz]

Thanks, I will give that a try and let you know how it goes.

 

[Confused]

Your MBR (Master Boot Record) is still on the old PATA drive, as it was the "C:" when installing XP.

Unplug it, and reinstall XP on the SATA drive. Then, plug back in your old drive and copy your files from it.


Today's lesson: Always unplug any hard drives/card readers other than the drive you are installing Windows on. This will make sure that your drive get's the right letter, and that you don't accidentally erase any existing data.



Confused