Windows XP wont start after starting and functioning once.

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Wilson Mejia

Help you bright people!
I built a new Pentium IV 2.66 GHz computer. I installed
Windows XP on 120 GB HDD. Upon finishing the installation
and navigating in XP one day, it won't boot up the next
day. It asks for CD to boot up. However, when I insert the
Windows XP CD, the computer tries to install XP for the
first time. When click to proceed, Computer repplies that
there is no Hard drive installed. BIOS sees it though.
Please, help. Any clues might help> Thank you
 
Hi Wilson. What's the hdd? IDE or SATA?

Did you change the bootdisk back to the
hdd in BIOS? Once you installed XP?

Did it complete the install of XP??

I take it, you did install from CD? A clean
install? Umm, also is the hdd jumper set to
master? And what else is installed as in hardware?
ie: CD/DVD/CD Writer etc.

It sounds like you have set the hdd to AUTO
in BIOS. On bootup (if you get it to boot),
does it detect/say the name of the hdd on the
post screen? Does it beep at all, when you boot?

Also once you set it to AUTO in BIOS, when
you press ESC, does it show the name of the
hard drive in BIOS? It should.

Also, it may pay to check to see if the 4 pin molex
plug, is firmly connected to the back of the hard drive.
and that the data cable to the hdd is right in, and
the right way round. (the red/blue strip on the IDE cable
goes to pin 1 of the mobo and the back of the 40 pin
connection, on the back of the hard drive).

That maybe 1 reason, why the system says its
not there. Let me know the above, and I'll try and help
you out.
 
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