I just recently purchased a case from case-mod and after transferring the components I got the "DISK BOOT FAILURE. INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" error and both hard drives remains unpowered. I have both cd and dvd drives and if I disconnect the IDE cable for both, I am able to boot up without the above error message but when I connect the cd and dvd drives the same error comes up again. I had assigned letters C for the HD, D and E for the cd and dvd before I transferred the components. When the transfer was made I installed a hard drive that was already partitioned into two drives and the computer upon booting up (without the cd and dvd) assigns them as D and E drives. Is there a conflict with the cd and dvd being called D and E and the second hard drive I installed? If so how might I fix this?
Hey Try this......... Power down-cut power Disconnect cd/dvd drives Connect HD with O/S as Master on Pri IDE controller boot into Bios and set to default settings Reboot into O/S Power Down Connect second HD as Slave on Pri IDE Boot int O/S Power down connect CD/DVD on Sec IDE(pri/slave) Boot into O/S and everything should be fine
After I enter setup using delete during bootup, as I am using win98, do I "load fail safe defaults" or " load optimized defaults" or is there somewhere else i should proceed to?
Well I went into the setup and loaded fail safe defaults and then followed the rest of the instructions you suggested but to no avail. I wound up with the disk boot failure error again. I => powered down connected HD with O/S as master (no jumper required for master) on primary IDE controller booted into BIOS, loaded failsafe, exited and saved settings which proceeded to reboot after exiting powered down connected second HD as slave (with the first one still attatched and the correct jumper sttings for both)on primary IDE Booted into O/S Powered down Connected CD/DVD on second IDE (using jumper settings specified on both drives; CD as master and DVD as slave) Booted up into Disk Boot Failure.Insert system disk and press enter. I am at a lost now
It is a Western Digital WD400 WD cavlar Enhanced IDE HD 40 GB (x2 for both HD's) I attempted a second time with the instructions and just noticed that my A: drive has reverted to a 51/4 disk drive instead of 31/4 Earlier on, my friend and I disconnected everything but the one HD and it was fine, but with the CD/DVD there was the disk boot error. I also tried various combinations but all with the same result
Hey Lets get the HD working first. Look closely at the drive's jumper configuration. http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc...nBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9anVtcGVyIHNldHRpbmdz&p_li= Get the drives working and get back to me.
I followed the link and i have the jumper set to pins 5 & 6 for master and 3 & 4 for slave as specified in the diagram (and confirms the diagrams on the HD themselves). Upon booting, the both appear in <My Computer> as C for one and D & E (due to partitioning) in the other as long as IDE2 to the CD and DVD are not connected. They run fine without the CD & DVD. I am currently using an Ultra Dual IDE Hard drive cable Pro Series 40-Socket/40-Socket/40-Socket internal produced by Belkin (i had to replace the old one because there were some mild abrasions on it that I thought might have attributed to the problem) which is different in appeareance to the normal ribbon.
What are you using the new cable for -- the cd/dvd? Try putting one(cd or dvd) device set as secondary master on IDE2.
I found the connection that was the cause of it all. I was disconnecting the IDE2 from the mainboard verses disconnecting the IDE cable from the drives themselves. When I connected only one of the drives there was still the error so I disconnected it all then began to reattatch the cables and noticed that the secondary drive of IDE2 had the cable connection upside down fprobably from earlier on when my friend and I were both trying to fix it. Now everything works fine. Thank you very much for your help and you can be sure that the connections would be triple checked next time. Thanks
