Re: New installation of Windows need Start Up Disk?

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It's a shot in the dark, but is your system partition marked "active"?


"NickSq" <NickSq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am still trying to solve the problem, despite trying many different
configurations the bios seems to need to look at the CD Rom with a Win XP
Pro
disk before going to the SATA hard disk and booting into XP. Most
frustrating.
--
Nick
Learning something new every day...


"Andy" wrote:

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 08:09:01 -0800, NickSq
<NickSq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Andy, I have only one HDD on the system and this is set to the
top of
the Hard Disk Priority list...

In this case make sure Hard Drive is in the boot sequence.



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