Edited by stinkytofu, 10 October 2005 - 10:44 PM.
HELP! Reboot and Select proper Boot device
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stinkytofu
, Oct 10 2005 10:41 PM
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#1
Posted 10 October 2005 - 10:41 PM
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#2
Posted 14 October 2005 - 10:34 PM
The way I read your post is that one hard drive is installed, it currently lack an operating system and you want to boot off the windows XP CD to install the operating system. Sounds like the computer is trying to boot off the hard drive and is then hanging up.
Suggest you go into BIOS setup on startup and look for a boot order setting. Make sure the CD Drive is before the Hard drive in the boot order.
If you format the drive with the CLJ or AC jumper then the drive capacity will be limited to 32GB. This is for use with older motherboards where the BIOS cannot deal with drives larger then 32GB. How old is this computer, and what is the date of its BIOS? A pentium 4 motherboard should not have any problems unless the drives are more then 137G. That can cause problems with some BIOS or disk controllers.
How large are the drives you are trying to install?
#3
Posted 15 October 2005 - 04:41 AM
Its not booting because there is no active partition.
Go to http://www.bootdisk.com and get the Windows 98 startup disk. Boot up and when you to the prompt type help (or /help) and it will list the commands you can use. There are several "boot" commands, try them to repair the MBR. (fixboot /mbr is the command you want)
Go to http://www.bootdisk.com and get the Windows 98 startup disk. Boot up and when you to the prompt type help (or /help) and it will list the commands you can use. There are several "boot" commands, try them to repair the MBR. (fixboot /mbr is the command you want)
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