Re: After ZIP Drive Install, Windows XP Disappeared

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From: Nathan McNulty (nospam_at_msn.com)
Date: 08/06/04 

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 21:08:51 -0700

I sure hope you didn't manage to format your hard drive. It sounds like
your first boot device is the ZIP disk now instead of the hard disk. If
you left a disk in the ZIP drive, it tried to boot off this first. Go
into your BIOS and make sure the boot order is correct. 

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Nathan McNulty
chap_cat wrote:
> I have recently built a new computer:
> 
> Abit IS7 MB
> INtel P4 2.8C
> 1GB PC3200 RAM
> ATI Radeon 9000Pro
> Hitachi Deskstar SATA 80GB HDD
> LiteOn CDRW Drive
> Samsung FDD
> 
> All assembly, BIOS setup and software installation went 
> flawlessly.  The computer ran perfectly since building it 
> a couple of weeks ago.  Today, I installed a Iomega ZIP100 
> drive.  No problem with install.  I ensured the jumper was 
> properly set.  I slaved the ZIP drive to the LiteOn on 
> Primary IDE 1.  The HDD is on SATA 1.  AFter ensuring 
> there was no loose wiring, I rebooted, and the BIOS 
> settings looked fine, with all drives detected.
> 
> However, after exiting BIOS, Windows XP Home would not 
> boot up.  I got a boot disk error, and was asked to put in 
> the system setup disk.  It asked whether I wanted to try 
> to recover a previous install, or install new.  What could 
> I have done wrong?
> 
> I eventually tried to reinstall XP, but I am unable to do 
> do.  I reformated the drive.  When I run the Install CD 
> however, it says the drive has no disk, and is not 
> formatted properly to install Windows on it.  Please help 
> me figure this out.  Thanks.

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