Hardriver problem

[Morgoth]

ok i'm having a problem its kinda wierd
my windows wont start while i have my 250gb harddisk pluged in :S or it says Operating system not found in bios, i have shecked my bios and it says all 2 hardriver are working 100%
i have run memtest 4 times no erro's and chaning jumpers nothing mutch and i also runned chdsk thingy fiew times on my H driver ( 250gb one )

[keakar]

give more details, was it working b4 just like it is now?

did you change anything or do any software to it?

what problems did you have just before this happened?

i see 2 hdd in your specs is this the only drive your using?

i see you have a customized xp install, how is it customized and are you running more than one OS?

[Morgoth]

yes it worked before some times i had the problem like no os found but after restart i was fine now i'm getting it every time when i connect my 250gb harddriver
no i havent changed anny thing
hmm wat problems i hade before this mayhem hmmm not 100% sure
i have 2 harddrivers connected
i'm only using 1 os thats windows xp sp2 on my 60gb hdd


ah i also get this at starting up the comp
1 long beep 2 short beeps

btw the 250gb maxtor hardrive is brandnew

[panchoman]

ok i'm having a problem its kinda wierd
my windows wont start while i have my 250gb harddisk pluged in :S or it says Operating system not found in bios, i have shecked my bios and it says all 2 hardriver are working 100%
i have run memtest 4 times no erro's and chaning jumpers nothing mutch and i also runned chdsk thingy fiew times on my H driver ( 250gb one )

you need to the bios and change the hdd prority so that the hard drive with windows is the first priority (excessively simplified)

[Morgoth]

ok now just 1 harddisk is showing up in bios

[panchoman]

hmmm interesting, and you have 2 plugged in? the one thats not the 250g one should be first priority, followed by the 250g one

[Morgoth]

i'm gona try to change some things in my bios and the jumpers
this problem started when i installed this new case

[francis511]

Are the hard drives ide or sata?If they`re ide then change them all to "cable select"with jumpers or other master/slave combination that works.Did you set priority in bios as pancho suggested ?

[Morgoth]

its ide/ata
ok thx i wil look into it

i'm not 100% if this is correct but on the ide cable says first disk connection = slave and the last connection on the end of the cable is master so its 250gb , 60gb

[panchoman]

check the jumpers on the drives, the 60g should be set to master, and the 250g should be slave, and make sure that the bios prorities also put the 60g ahead of the 250g and i dont think the cable matters but usually the one on the end of the wire is master and the the slave is the one on the middle.

[Morgoth]

ok i got the 2 harddrivers working now
i tryd to install windows on the 250gb harddriver but now he wont start the os on the 60gb harddriver :S 60gb hdd = master, 250gb hdd = slave just wierd

[Morgoth]

problem fixed ( reformated it )

[panchoman]

its a bootloader thing. when the bios boots, it reads the bootloader of the first drive(master) and the bootloader will tell the bios where your windows installation is located. the bios will execute your windows and then the job of the bios is done. you bios must know clearly which bootloader to boot. if the bootloader on the 60g one is for only the 60g windows. and the 250g bootloader is only for the 250g windows, then you'll need to keep switching to the correct bootloader/ hdd so just make sure that all the oses are on the bootloader of one drive.

[Morgoth]

i have tryd that but nothing worked so i putted in the windows cd disk and reformated the D driver on 250gb hdd

[panchoman]

i have tryd that but nothing worked so i putted in the windows cd disk and reformated the D driver on 250gb hdd

or you could've gone to the recovery counsle and typed fixboot lol.