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PC has a mind of its own

  • 11-10-2004 8:41pm
    #1
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭


    I've now finished installing a clean Windows on the old hard drive I want to sell, so I reattached the new hard drive, went into the BIOS and happily set the master to Auto and the secondary master to CD-ROM, saved and exited.

    But would it listen? Oh no.

    It decided it wanted to boot from the CD and reformat the new drive, again.

    So I exited the setup, restarted and went back into the BIOS. This time I set the primary master to User-defined HDD, and the secondary master to CD-ROM, saved and exited.

    It suggested that I should remove any boot disks, which I did, then I restarted, and it got all snotty, saying there was no boot disk.

    ARRRGGGHHH!

    How do I convince this computer to be a nice little machine and just start from the hard drive? (Yes, the jumpers are set right and everything.)


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  • #2
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    Ack, weird. I set both primary and secondary master to Auto and the primary chose the DVD-ROM and the secondary the hard drive. So I shut down and swapped the cables on the motherboard and then restarted, and it was fine.

    But the strange thing is that it was working the other way round a minute ago with a different hard drive.

    Nowt so queer as motherboards.


  • #3
    Webmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭Webmonkey


    Have you set the BIOS boot sequence to Hard drive, IDE 0 . Perhaps its trying to boot from the hard disk but you have a currupt file system after it tying to format your drive (again), i dunno how this would happen but well dats my few words...

    EDIT: ok you got there before me


  • #4
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    But what's really weird is that an hour ago, using the same hard drive and DVD-ROM, I was working with the hard drive as master and the DVD-ROM as secondary master!


  • #5
    gamer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,227 ✭✭✭gamer


    go to bios set boot in order drive o ,driveo1,o2 ,o3 etc,save settings and reboot .


  • #6
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    gamer, I don't understand what you mean.

    I'm leaving it for the night anyway; it seems to be happy now, so I'll instal anything else my friend needs and pack it off to her with its software disks and so on tomorrow.


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  • #7
    zynaps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,529 ✭✭✭zynaps


    Primary and secondary master doesn't have anything to do with boot order - you shouldn't need to mess with it? It should have worked fine with Auto for both, without swapping the cables.

    Makes no odds really, I guess :)


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