Problems booting after temp HD Installation.

Edward · Post by **Edward** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:08 am

I have a compaq PIII desktop computer with two HDs a FD and a CD drive installed. I needed to format another HD so I uninstalled the CD drive and replaced it with the other HD and ran FDisk from a floppy on the other HD. Then Uninstalled the other HD and reinstalled the CD drive. Now I cant boot from my original HD and once the BIOS fails other boot options I get

Non-System disk or disk error
replace and strike any key when ready
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I have checked the boot order and there arent any prioblems there and I don't know what I should do. Any ideas?

De Rigueur · Post by **De Rigueur** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:18 am

Hopefully, you didn't format the wrong disk.

Edward · Post by **Edward** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:21 am

NO thats not the case I olny formatted once and I tested the other HD in another comp afterwards and i was formatted.

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 12:21 pm

What's the OS? If it's XP, boot from the CD to the recovery console and try "fixmbr" and "fixboot c:" (without the quotes).

It'd be nice to know if you can see your boot drive in the BIOS and your files via a boot CD or floppy disk too.

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 12:47 pm

Which drive did you format? C, D, E, or F?

Vander · Post by **Vander** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 2:45 pm

Run FDisk again and make sure the proper partition is set as Active.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:26 pm

And do be sure to double-check that ribbon cable. Make sure its properly inserted into the hard drive, with pin 1 (the colored wire) facing the power connector.