can you help with my Hard disk drive problem?

Question

My HDD is behaving harshly with me. when it is
attached as a slave to other HDD it is
working,ie,drives are accessible including the primary
drive(C: drive), but as a primary it cant boot OS.

"remove disks and other media.
Please press a key to restart"
--- messege is popping up then after hitting
a key-
"DISK BOOT FAILURE....." --pops up.

I guess MBR may has been disturbed if it does,then
tell me how to cope with it.

Answer 1

I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that you're running Windows XP.

You can replace the boot record and repair the windows installation by using the repair feature of the Install CD.

Boot to the CD. Follow the Setup and watch for the "Repair Console".

Once in the Repair Console, type:
CHKDSK /FIX

This will run a repair of the Master Boot Record.
You may also need to repair your Windows Installation. You can do this by booting to the CD, bypass the Repair Console, and then watch for the REPAIR INSTALLATION command.

The repair will replace all the corrupt files in your Windows Installation.

Answer 2

The first thing you will need is a boot disk. Use a windows 98 boot disk or the Windows XP or 2000 installation CD.

If windows 98
Boot up the computer with the boot disk. use the command at the prompt "FDISK /MBR" and then try to reboot

If windows XP/2000
Boot up with the XP/2000 Cd and use the recovery console option. use the "FIXMBR" command at the prompt.

IF this still does not work, you might not have an operating system (like windows) installed on that drive, and it might need to be reinstalled.

Answer 3

Go to bios, and change the boot order, get you floppy listed as anything but first position, and put your HDD as primary or first this may get it acting right. If not try running check disk in dos mode. CHKDSK. Otherwise it's off to the shop for an offload,and reload to a new HDD

Answer 4

Like the answer above check the jumpers.

Also try updating your BIOS
Also check the boot priority on the bios because it might be trying to Boot from the drive that does not have the OS on it

Answer 5

sounds like one of the same problems that im having with an older computer, you can try making your bigger disk a primary and forget the slave drive all together, or get into the bios and try redecting the hdd if that dont work then clear your cmos settings

Answer 6

Repair the MBR using the operating system's disc. Windows XP has a FIXMBR utility included on the CD.

Answer 7

In addition to the hardware set up, the drive has to be bootable, meaning you've formatted it with some sort of basic operating system so that your BIOS detects a bootable disc when it scans it in the boot up sequence.

Answer 8

your HDD lost it's boot sector ...
first backup your data then try this command . remeber that you should boot up your system in command prompt mode with windows installation disk . and too attach only your corrupted disk to pc.
try format / mbr
if it's not working try repartition and re format .

Answer 9

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Answer 10

you may have your jumpers set wrong on the HD, if it works fine as a slave but not a primary, you have to get to the back of it and move the jumpers to the master setting, it should say right on the HD label what setting is for master