unable to find the boot disk (XP Home SP2)

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Motherboard: ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe
System: Windows XP Home SP2

SATA: Primary 80GB (Windows XP installed)
IDE 1: 300GB (Jumper MASTER)
IDE 1: 250GB (Jumper SLAVE)

When the 250GB SLAVE is not installed, the system boots well to the SATA. However, when the 250GB SLAVE is installed, the system can not find the boot disk. Is there a way to fix this problem?

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I’d check the boot sequence in the BIOS settings.

John

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When you boot with the slave missing, what drive letters are assigned to each partition?

StuartR

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Your post says IDE 1 on both entries…? Might you have a cable problem?

Edited after Stuart woke me up! DOH!

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Al,

It looks to me as though IDE1 has two drives, one master and one slave.

StuartR

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I saw s similar problem once. Configuration was three IDE hard drives and one IDE DVD-RW. Cause of the problem: DVD-RW. For some reason, it wouldn’t work with any slaves.

Try different configuration: set both IDE HDs as CS or connect one of them as slave to CD/DVD drive on IDE 0, or set 250 GB HD as Master and 300 GB HD as slave, etc.
Boot to BIOS after each change and check drive configuration (are they recognized properly) and boot sequence.

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