Hello everyone Heres my situation. I have two setups in my house, one of them had a DVD RW drive and the other one had a large file that i needed to burn, so i took apart both computers, installed the DVD writer and managed to burn the file with next to no problem... Then i tried to install the CD RW drive on the other computer and i cant even access windows...it just tells me: "F2: Setup F11: BootMenu Auto-detecting Pri Slave...Noit Detected Auto-detecting Sec Master...ATAPI CR-ROM Auto-detecting Sec Slave...ATAPI CR-ROM Sec Master:9S19 LITE-ON DVD SOHD167T Sec lave: N3.8R/RW 12X8X32 HardDisk(s) Cyl Head Sector Size LBA 32bit Block PIO UDMA Mode Mode Mode Mode Mode Secondaryt MasterVD ROM Secondary Slave: CD-RW Scan Devices, Please Wait Press<Tab> key into User Window! Serial_Ch0 Master: No Device Serial_Ch1 Master: No Device Searching for Boot Record from Floppy...Not Found Searching for Boot Record from CD ROM...Not Found Searching for Boot Record from SCSI...Not Found Boot Failure Insert BOOT diskette in A: Press any key when ready_" There are just two disk drives in the comp. DVD Rom and CD RW btw ...i called up some support line and they said check the hard drive, coz its probably unplugged...nope... any ideas please??
Your BIOS is telling you it can't find your Hard Drive. Try the following: 1) Check your CMOS to make sure the system is set to boot from the Hard Drive. 2)Make sure the jumper on the hard drive is set to Master not Slave. 3) Make sure the IDE cable (or Serial Cable) is connected properly to the Hard drive and Motherboard. 4) Make sure the power cable is connected to the hard drive.
oh ok got it... but i have : 'Quick Boot mode: Enabled Boot up Num-Lock: On Boot to OS/2: No Boot from Network: Disabled VIA SATA Raid Utility: Enabled > Boot Device Priority ' This may seem obvious or whatever but im just worried about fuckin up someone elses system... cherz
Yeah choose the >Boot device Priority tab. This is where you can set which drives boot first. Make the Hard Drive the 1st prority in the list.. If your options are only for CDROM/DVD and none for hard drive.... then your hard drive isn't being found by the system.. This will mean the hard drive isn't physcially connected properly. Each CMOS is different so read through the menus.. Sometimes you have to use the + and - sign to select devices.
