Jumper pin on Master, harddrive on primary ide when trying to boot up states missing ( ? letters) files must restart and does the same thing
2006-12-14 01:27:49 · 7 answers · asked by Marie M 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Did you make the drive bootable?
You may need to find a boot disk (e.g. a Windows 98 boot disk), boot to that, and then from the command prompt type:
fdisk /mbr
This should make it so that the hard drive is bootable. Of course, if you haven't installed an operating system yet you may not get to boot very far.
2006-12-14 01:34:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Formatted drive should be made bootable. If it is slave, because you have a OS on another drive (your question seems to imply that), then you should make the formatted drive as slave. BIOS may recognize your drive but not your OS.
If you want to install the formatted drive, then make it a Master (make the other as slave with j-pins) then put in your OS disk and let it install. Everything is automatic. It will give the drive letter, format it to the file system (NTFS or FAT as the case may be) and install OS.
2006-12-14 01:42:20 · answer #2 · answered by Nightrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have "Formatted the drive" then you need to instal afresh Windows using a bootable Windows OS disk.
If you already have windows installed on another drive then this drive
should not be primary.
2006-12-14 01:30:51 · answer #3 · answered by vangel_sg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
run the fdisk program on your boot floppy or cd make sure that there is a partition set up and the partition is set to active. If the partition is not set to active then the OS will not be able to "see" the drive or any partitions on it.
2006-12-14 02:01:34 · answer #4 · answered by Fremen 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it has to do with boot priority, normal order isfloppy drive first boot device,cd second, hard drive third,be sure there is no floppy in drive, put os disc in cd drive, on restart it shold say start on cd , hit enter,so make sure bios boot order is set right,and no other disc is in your drives
2006-12-17 07:22:44 · answer #5 · answered by jlbudweiser 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is this the only HDD installed?
Make sure it is set as 'active' and 'primary drive' in Fdisk.
contact me for additional info if required.
2006-12-14 01:48:06 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-14 01:43:06 · answer #7 · answered by junkmail 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋