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System will only boot with CD in drive?

sep

sep

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If I setup the bios to boot from CD/DVD and put a CD in the drive My Seagate 160 PATA Drive boots up normal. If I remove the CD (any CD) from the DVD Drive I get an error "Operating System failed to initialize" or something fk'ed up like that.

Nothing has changed. One day my system restarted for no reason and it rebooted to this screen. I tried everything to get the system, reinstall XP to another directory and only with the CD in the drive can I boot properly.

My guess would be that drive isn't spinning properly and it needs the DVD Drive to spin first and then spin the hard drive (or something like that). I'm going to replace the drive, but want to make sure it's the drive and not something else.

AMD 3000+, 1GB RAM, ASUS A8N-Deluxe, 480W Antec - Complete System in Signature.
 
Hi,
If the BIOS settings have only one option - to boot from the CD, then that is what it will do.
You would have to put another option for it, as in second boot dev - Sata Hdd dev.
 
I'm sorry if I didn't explain it correctly. My system will only boot from myprimary drive, as long as a I have a CD in the CD Drive. It doesn't boot from it, it boots from the hd.
 
montag is right. Some systems (I've seen a few come across my bench) will only boot from the HDD if there's a CD in the CD-Rom if the CD-Rom is specified as the first boot device before the HDD. Don't ask me why - it shouldn't happen.

Check the boot order in BIOS and set it to this order:

1) Floppy
2) IDE0 (or SATA0 if it's a SATA system)
3) CD-Rom

See if that fixes it. If it does you're cool until you ever need to re-install Windows and then you'll need to change the boot order to put the CD-Rom before the hard drive.

Hope this helps...


 
1000 Apologizes to you both. I never thought that the bios changes. When I took your advice and looked in the bios, I found boot order. My SATA drive was 1 and PATA was 2. Once I reversed this order, presto, the system is booting up just fine.

Thanks!
-JC
 
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