Re: IDE harddrive not booting after install
From: Yves Leclerc (yleclercNOSPAM_at_maysys.com)
Date: 12/30/04
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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:47:23 -0500
To use the newer 160GB hard drive and to format it correctly, you need to be
using a motherboard that can do 46Bit LBA and use XP SP1/SP2 CD to format.
If you are using an older XP CD, look on how to "slipstream" SP2 and create
a new XP install CD.
"Coldy" <Coldy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BF649BC7-2B30-471E-9BEF-64C73F8C2477@microsoft.com...
>I recently bought a WD 160gb IDE hard drive and installed as a master on
>the
> second ide port (with a CD writer as slave). On the first IDE port i have
> WD
> 40 GB IDE hard drive as a master and a DVD-rom as a slave. It all worked
> just
> fine.
>
> Recently i wanted to reinstall windows with the 160 gb drive on the first
> ide port and the 40 gb on the second. changed the boot up sequence in BIOS
> (drives where allready found). Restarted and put the XP installation cd in
> the drive. It began installing XP(Home) after formating. When it was done
> copying files and restarted the following message appeared.
>
> failure in scsi device, can't boot or something similar.
>
> Is there a problem with my motherboard?
> It recognize it as a 160 gb drive but it doesn't show heads,cylinders or
> sectors.
> With the 40 gb drive it does recognize them
> Motherboard : MSI 845E max (approx. 2 years old)
>
> thanx
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