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Rexse7en44

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Hey hows it going? I am working on building a system and I have come to a screaching halt. When I boot, it says it cant detect a hard drive. Then it comes to a screen that says reboot and select proper boot device. So to word it easily, I need some ideas on how to make to hard drive detect. This is my first system that I am building by myself, and I'm not sure if I forgot to do something, if some settings are off, or if something isn't working properly. I would appreciate any advice you have. Thanks!!
 
The first thing I would do is check the jumper settings on the back of the Harddrive and the CD-Rom, if one is wrong it can affect both of them. Make sure you have them configured for master/slave instead of cable select, it gives you more control. The next thing I would do is make sure that the power cables and the IDE cables are securely plugged into the back of each drive. Next go into the BIOS and check to see if it recognizes the devices. If it doesn't recognize them then the drive may be bad. Good luck.
 
Well I double checked all of the IDE connections, and jumper settings. I am just about to try a different hard drive so I will let you know how that went in about 15 minutes :)
 
ok. I switched hard drive. That solved problem #1. Now i am on to another problem. When I boot up it says
" We aplogize for the inconvenience, but windows did not start succesfully. A recent hardware or software change might have cause this.

If your computer stopped responding, restarted unexpectedly, or was automatically shut down to protect your files and folders, choose last know good configuration to revert the the most recent settings that worked.

If a previous startup attempt was interupted due to a power failure or because the power or reset button was pressed, or if you aren't sure what cause the problem, start windows normally

then you can choose safe mode, safe mode w/networking, safe mode w/command prompt, last known config, or start windows normally."

I am not sure what to do at this point. It wont boot up on any of these here. What should I do?
 
I forgot the specs. So here they are

P4P800
P4 2.8 ghz 800FSB HT
1gb pc3200 kingston kvr400x64c3ak2/1g
Radeon 9800 pro 128mb
at the moment a ibm 15gb hd
 
Rexse7en44 said:
ok. I switched hard drive. That solved problem #1. Now i am on to another problem. When I boot up it says
" We aplogize for the inconvenience, but windows did not start succesfully. A recent hardware or software change might have cause this.

If your computer stopped responding, restarted unexpectedly, or was automatically shut down to protect your files and folders, choose last know good configuration to revert the the most recent settings that worked.

If a previous startup attempt was interupted due to a power failure or because the power or reset button was pressed, or if you aren't sure what cause the problem, start windows normally

then you can choose safe mode, safe mode w/networking, safe mode w/command prompt, last known config, or start windows normally."

I am not sure what to do at this point. It wont boot up on any of these here. What should I do?
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did the drive already have windows on it before you put it in the system?
if it did, you cant just throw a drive into a system with windows and expect it to work. windows has to intstall all the drivers for things like north/south bridge, ide controller, pci controller, ect. either format the drive, or boot up windows isntallation and choose "repair" it will install all your new hardware for it. the BEST way to do with the least chance for error is to format, and start with a fresh OS
 
the same thing happened to me when i built my system...

i seems that windows xp sp1 isn't able to mess with serial ATA hard drives. i had to make a floppy with the SATA drivers (from your mobo website... make sure it's the right one to fit your chipset). then, when windows is in initial stage of install, you have to hit F6 and install the SATA driver. now windows will recognize the drive and voila...

hope it helps...
MuadDib

Athlon 3200+
Gigabyte k8n pro
512 mb kingston pc3200 ddr
80 mb western SATA
XFX 6800 GT (370/1)
 
thanks for the help everyone!!! I am going to reformat and if I have any problems I will post more :) Have a good one!!!
 
MuadDib420 said:
the same thing happened to me when i built my system...

i seems that windows xp sp1 isn't able to mess with serial ATA hard drives. i had to make a floppy with the SATA drivers (from your mobo website... make sure it's the right one to fit your chipset). then, when windows is in initial stage of install, you have to hit F6 and install the SATA driver. now windows will recognize the drive and voila...
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I've never needed to install the SATA drivers when loading XP on any of my 3 SATA computers.

Rexse7en44 you never said what types of hard drives you had. If you first had a Serial ATA drive you have to go into your BIOS and make sure SATA is enabled and make sure to set the BIOS to boot off SATA first. Plus make sure your SATA cable is plugged into the correct port. That's all in your motherboards owner manual.

Your old 15GB IBM drive is PATA and the computer will boot fine from it since the BIOS default is to boot off that IDE port.
 
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