I have just bought a 320gig hard drive and I tried adjusting the boot sequence to my xp disc first, it restarted and when it was detecting the ide primary slave, which normally comes up with the c drives name, it instead said disk boot failure, blah blah..how do I fix this and get xp running (it also says floppy disk failure at startup too)
2007-03-19 01:31:30 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
I bought a drive and had the same issue.
Some drives require you to have an 80 pin cable vs the standard 40 pin, installed for them to work porperly.
Go to best buy and look for a conductor 80 ide cable....If you got a cable with the drive, use that one.....
Try setting the jumper for the drive to cable select, if you have 2 drives, they both need to be set to either cable select, or one as primary, and one as slave......
2007-03-19 01:37:58 · answer #1 · answered by Vincent 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have this set up as the first drive you need to unhook the slave. Format the HD and then put XP on the new drive. You cannot boot from a slave so that is why the BIOS was giving you a hard time the first time you booted.
Make sure you FDISK the new hard drive before installing the OS. If you do not have a boot disk then Win XP will reformat the drive for you.
Also make sure that the jumpers in the back are set correctly.
2007-03-19 09:10:23 · answer #2 · answered by Kenn N 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check jumper setting on the two drives and either have your XP drive as the Primary and new one as slave or both of them on CS (Cable Select) and have the XP drive on the end of the IDE cable. Then go into the bios and make sure that you can see both drives and your XP drive comes up as the Primary. Then go to boot sequence and make sure that your priamry (XP) drive is set to boot first. The reason you were getting a boot device failure was either you had an IDE conflict (both drives set to same) or you had it booting to the new drive without an OS. Remember after you get all up and running you will need to format the new drive to start using it.
2007-03-19 08:45:38 · answer #3 · answered by Mike 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check the jumper of your hard disk (the small piece on the back of your hard disk where u can see it put on 2x4 pins. Remove this jumper with clip/small tiny stick). The hard disk jumper should be on MASTER position (u can see the table of jumper position on the top of your hard disk). Check the jumper of your CD/DVD drive also, because if both put on master then u will find that disk boot failure message.
Put the jumper of your hard disk (the one that your want to be on first boot) on MASTER, and the other (ur other hard disk, CD/DVD drive) on secondary master, primary slave, or secondary slave accordingly.
I give u the link of jumper setting for samsung hard drive.
Hope it help. Good luck!
2007-03-19 08:46:05 · answer #4 · answered by Hanindie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like the leads aren't in properly,
also check the jumpers are in the correct position on both hard drives, one set as primary, one as slave.
another reason may be that if your bios/motherboard is to old, it may only recognise drives up to a certain size, you my have to limit the amount of the disk you can use
2007-03-19 08:37:55 · answer #5 · answered by Matt B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try and ask my friend hes very good at these probs. Go to www.pcrealm.ie (it may be .co.uk)
Email him your question if you have no luck here, or call him and he will fix.
2007-03-19 08:38:04 · answer #6 · answered by Helios64 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋