CD not detected w Boot Floppy P4P800

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I'm not sure which group to start in, but since I built the system
around a P4P800 I thought I'd start here.

Due to a mechanical HD failure, I had to install a new HD. No problem
booting the WinXP CD from the CD drive. Partitioned the HD into 3
sections, making the boot drive NTFS and one of the extended drives
FAT32, so I could always easily see those contents with a boot floppy.

After installing a basic WinXP setup on my HD I wanted to make an
image file, but when I booted with a WinME boot disk I can't get it to
see my CD (Sony CRX220E1) or DVD (Sony DRU-510A) I've tried some of
the other boot disks I'd gotten off the net, and which had worked on
my old system - (the disk that calls the CD "Tomato" when it's
locating the CD drives.) - no go.

The drives are being autodetected correctly by the BIOS.
Setting the secondary master to CD rather than autodetect didn't
change things.

What am I missing? How do I get the system to see the CD drives when
booting from a floppy?

TIA

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you need a line in the config.sys file with something like
DEVICE=ATAPI_HP.SYS (your driver would be referenced here)
and also a line in the autoexec.bat file that has line MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001
(or some such)

note that the *.sys and MSCDEX.EXE files need to be on the boot floppy as
well.
 
Had this same prob with my P4C800 Delexe, go into IDE config in bios and
change Enhanced to compatible and then save and reboot, don't forget to go
back in and change back when you wish to Boot XP. You may have to play
around with your mode support settings too and your boot settings screen may
get mixed up as well and you need to return them to their original settings.
This is how i was able to get GHOST to make an image (Raid 1) on my DVD/RW.
Hope this helps.

!:SPECS:!
Asus P4C800 Deluxe (AMI 1014 bios),
Intel Pentium 4/3.0c GHZ HyperThreading CPU (800mhz fsb) with Arctic Silver
5 thermal compound ,
2048mb DDR400 Kingston KVR400X64C3AK2/1G/(2x1G Kit)
(4 x 512mb) running in Dual Channel Mode,
Leadtek Geforce 4/A170 4x 64mb DDR,
Maxtor 40gb x 2 UltraATA 133 hard drives in Raid 1 Mirror on ICH5,
Seagate ST38001A 80gb Hard Drive (storage) (Sec IDE M),
Western Digital WDC WD2000JD 200 Gig SATA Hard Drive (3rd master),
Sony DRU510A DVD/RW Burner (Pri IDE M),
Sony 1.44 FDD Modified with a High Intensity Blue LED,
Sony 19" Multiscan G400 CRT Monitor @ 1024 x 768 @ 120Hz.
Asus 52x24x52 CD/RW (Pri IDE S),
Logitech Cordless MX Duo cordless keyboard & mouse,
CoolerMaster WaveMaster TAC-T01 Aluminium case with 450 watt PSU,
CoolerMaster front case cooler fans (2) attached to Motherboard,
CoolerMaster rear case cooler fan (clear with 4 blue LEDs) attached to
Motherboard,
CoolerMaster Aerogate II fan bus controller,
CoolerMaster shielded, rounded floppy/Ultra ATA cables (3).
 
What am I missing? How do I get the system to see the CD drives when
booting from a floppy?
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Er, you need a DOS CD-ROM driver and MSCDEX. Try the generic Oak ATAPI one.
 
Had this same prob with my P4C800 Delexe, go into IDE Config in bios and
change Enhanced to Compatible
.....snip.......
You may have to play around with your mode support settings too and your boot
settings screen may get mixed up as well and you need to return them to their original
settings.
This is how i was able to get GHOST to make an image (Raid 1) on my DVD/RW.
Hope this helps.
Click to expand...

Eureka! That's the fix.

I had tried Compatible Mode but that alone hadn't worked. Changing
the Mode Support Settings below that to "Secondary P-ATA and S-ATA" or
to "P-ATA only" worked. When the Mode Support Settings were at the
default of "Primary P-ATA and S-ATA" it didn't detect the CD and DVD
drives. Ghost image done now!

Hmmm. Now to figure out if / how to recover any data from the IBM
Deskstar (Deathstar???) hard drive that failed. According the the
diagnostic software it's a bad sector; not like the ususal corrupt OS
you can fix by replacing with a backup image. Any thoughts on that
guys? I haven't checked the IBM group yet.

PS. Leaving the BIOS on Compatible Mode and P-ATA ports only still
allows WinXP to run when booting off the hard drive. I'm not sure
what other effects it may have on WinXP and operating the system, but
so far so good.

Thanks.


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