Reboot woes

[rnbwchs]

I've just installed a new ASUS TXP4-X MB and a new WD 6.4G harddrive. Other specs are Intel P-5 200mhz CPU and 49M of RAM. 1 floppy drive, 1 IDE internal ZIP drive, 1 single CD Drive, 1 four disk cd changer. System originally built by Micron, but with new MB and HD that shouldn't be an issue, right?

Anyway, the system starts out fine and will boot to floppy without any problems. However, if I try to boot to the C drive, I get "Press key to reboot." It will continue in this loop as long as I continue to try to boot to C:.

I've checked Fdisk, reformatted the HD, reinstalled system files, tried Fdisk /MBR. Nothing helped. Any ideas?

 

[samelcamel]

If you've tried fdisk /mbr, that might be part of the problem! You don't want to remove the Master Boot Record unless you are trying to reload the entire pc! If you are trying to reload the entire pc, follow these steps:

1) Boot with a good bootable disk with all utilities.
2) Go into fdisk and remove all partitions.
3) Once all partitions are removed, exit to DOS and do an FDISK /MBR
4) Reboot the pc and go into fdisk again and create a partition.
5) Make sure partition is set to "active" and reboot pc.
6) from a: prompt type: FORMAT C: /S (requires sys.com on floppy.)
7) Reboot and see if the C: drive is bootable.

 

[rnbwchs]

Thank you for your response. The /MBR was not the problem because I had it before doing /MBR. Anyway, I found the answer on my own and part of what you said was the solution. Somehow, the primary partition had not been set to active. Once I changed that, all is well.

Thanks again.

 

[rnbwchs]

Thank you for your response. The /MBR was not the problem because I had it before doing /MBR. Anyway, I found the answer on my own and part of what you said was the solution. Somehow, the primary partition had not been set to active. Once I changed that, all is well. I just hadn't had time to come in here and let everyone know.

Thanks again.

 

[rnbwchs]

Thank you for your response. The /MBR was not the problem because I had it before doing /MBR. Anyway, I found the answer on my own and part of what you said was the solution. Somehow, the primary partition had not been set to active. Once I changed that, all is well. I just hadn't had time to come in here and let everyone know.

Thanks again.

Sorry about the multiple responses...I'm having trouble with my ISP and modem.