boot problem

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Who is the manufacturer of the disk drives? The reason I ask is that the 2
most popular, Maxtor and WD, are quite different in their jumper schemes.
When you try to boot from a bootable cd, have you gone into your
motherboards bios and changed the boot order?
 
John said:
I have a weird boot problem. I have 2 hard drives. And I have verified the
jumper settings and they are correct.

If I have just one hard drive connected, it boots fine.

If I have two hard drives conneted at the same time it doesnt boot. It
gives a disk boot error.
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On the same cable? I know yu said you checked the jumpers, but what sme
people don't realize is that some hard drive have separate jumper settings
for Master (Single) and Master with Slave.
Now the strange part. If I have a bootable cd in the cd rom but it does not
boot from it, it will boot from my hd with out any problems.

Any idea on what could be causing this?

Thanks!
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Is this second hard drive something new? What was the original setup?
 
In the case of IDE drives, you would use rather Master/Slave jumpering than
CableSelect and connect the flat cable accordingly.
 
Has it ever booted correctly, with 2nd hd connected, or did this only occur
after installing 2nd hd?
If this only occured after installing 2nd hd it might tend to infer that
either the jumpers are incorrect or a ide cable / controler problem.
Also if this is a new hd try installing this as master, with origonal hd
disconnected, boot using cd and check that you can format the new hd - at
least this would verify the new hd.
 
I have a weird boot problem. I have 2 hard drives. And I have verified the
jumper settings and they are correct.

If I have just one hard drive connected, it boots fine.

If I have two hard drives conneted at the same time it doesnt boot. It
gives a disk boot error.

Now the strange part. If I have a bootable cd in the cd rom but it does not
boot from it, it will boot from my hd with out any problems.

Any idea on what could be causing this?

Thanks!
 
The problem description lacks the details, but after re-reading all your
posts it seems like the boot disk doesn't have any active partition. Boot
into RecoveryConsole and run 'fixboot c:'
 
Disk Boot Failure, Insert System disk and press enter

that is what I get when it doesnt have the cd rom in

yet it is booting off the hard drive w/ the cd rom in

some how it seems like the boot files didnt get transfered over

any other ideas?

Thanks!
 
Yes I have changed the boot order. The main hard drive is a WD and the
secondary is a Seagate.
 
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