I've tried switching every possible cable and combination for my hard drive and my DVD burner. The farthest I've gotten was one second on the Windows XP boot screen and then it restarted. Now, when the DVD rom (Toshiba SD R2572) boots, it says press any key to boot. If it leave it alone with the XP CD in there, it will say Disk Start Error. When I try to boot with the hard drive nothing happens, even though it works ont he other computer. The normal progress I get is just to pass the motherboard check and enter BIOS.
2006-11-23 10:55:56 · 4 answers · asked by xdarkelf714x 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
The hard drive was used with my old motherboard which messed up. Should I use the video card that was installed in my hard drive or should I use the onboard video card of my new motherboard? I tried booting the hard drive only but it got stuck.
2006-11-23 11:18:37 · update #1
If it starts up fine without the DVD plugged in, then I'd take the drive back. Looks to be faulty.
Added 11/24: Oh, that's different. If the hard drive you're using had XP installed on it while using a different motherboard, then it will not work on a new motherboard. XP configured itself specifically for the motherboard. There is no way it will boot up with a different motherboard.
You have only two choices:
1) Either buy another motherboard which is 100% identical to your old one.
2) Wipe the hard drive and start over.
I'd recommend option #2. There are ways you can get any information off the drive. You can place the hard drive in a second PC as a secondary hard drive and copy the data off. Or you can build yourself a PE disk.
A PE disk is basically Windows on a CD. It allows you to boot into windows from the CD, not the hard drive. You boot off the CD and copy your files off that way. You can see about creating a PE disk from here...
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
But you'll need another PC to build the PE disk also. Sorry, your options are pretty limited at this point.
2006-11-23 11:07:32 · answer #1 · answered by The Psycho 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. In your BIOS you should have an option of which device to boot from. It sound like the PC is trying to find a boot device. Make it the hard drive. If that works then change it to the DVD drive. This should point you in the right direction.
2006-11-23 19:50:44 · answer #2 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Replace all the cables and drives. If the problem still persists test the drives in other computers. If they work then buy a pci card with IDE headers AND TRY IT.
2006-11-23 19:50:55 · answer #3 · answered by A M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your computer is not working properly while you are working on it, it could be a problem with device drivers, hardware or software.
Detailed instructions at http://tinyurl.com/yk5zpr
2006-11-23 20:48:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋