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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Hardware / August 2006PC won't boot without the XP DVD in drive
Hi I've installed XP on my PC, however it won't boot without the XP dvd in the drive When the dvd is in the drive and you boot, it asks if you want to boot from the cd. If you hit a key it boots from the cd and goes into XP setup, else if you do not it loads windows happily. However if there is no cd in the drive it says that there is no bootdisk present. I've set the boot order in the bios to every possible combination of boot order. Any ideas? Neil Reinstall XP to the hard drive. | Hi | [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] | | Neil I've re-installed XP three times already. Doesn't seem to make a difference. > Reinstall XP to the hard drive. > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > | > | Neil Then there is something wrong with the partition or the BIOS setting. Have you booted XP with the CD and then used disk management to be sure the C: partition [or which ever partition you installed XP on is active? Are you sure the hard drive is properly installed and jumpered? I would be tempted to repartition the drive and do a clean install, letting XP work on a blank drive to start. You can boot a program called ERASER from a floppy and completely wipe the hard drive and start over like the drive was new, there will be nothing on it to interfere with getting a proper install of XP. | I've re-installed XP three times already. Doesn't seem to make a difference. | [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] | > | | > | Neil >Hi > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >the cd. If you hit a key it boots from the cd and goes into XP setup, else >if you do not it loads windows happily. When you see the prompt to hit a key to boot from the CD, it means that the code on the XP CD that boots to the XP setup routine has detected the existence of a hard disk containing an active primary partition. If you don't hit a key, then it boots from this disk. >However if there is no cd in the drive it says that there is no bootdisk >present. This means the BIOS isn't booting from the correct hard disk. >I've set the boot order in the bios to every possible combination of boot >order. There are two things to set: 1) boot order of hard disk, CD, floppy, etc., and 2) hard disk priority. >Any ideas? What motherboard? What kind of hard disk(s), how are they partitioned, and how are they connected to the motherboard? >Neil Hi I reset the bios to default settings and all is fine now. Thanks Neil > Hi > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Neil |
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