Hi.

I used to start BartPE from CD-ROM since months. It worked fine up to
a fortnight ago (last boot). Today it won't.

Instead, after the message that setup checks the hardware, the
harddrive LED lights up permanently and nothing else happens. Only a
restart gets me out of this.

There are three SATA-I harddrives installed: one (Maxtor 300GB) with
Windows XP Pro and SuSe Linux, the other two (Maxtor 300GB, Hitachi
320GB) containing only user data on NTFS. When I unplug the first
drive with the Windows and Linux systems from the motherboard (Asus
A8N-SLI Deluxe, the nvidia sothbridge connectors) BartPE boots
faultlessly.

From this I derive the fault to be on the Win and Linux boot drive.
But, both Windows and Linux (GRUB on floppy) boot OK. There where no
changes in the system that I am aware of exept for an Acrobat Reader
update two days ago (I don't think Acrobat Reader is the reason).

As a try I performed an fdisk /mbr, but to no avail. Actually I don't
know where to look first for the fault.
I'd appreciate any ideas smarter than mine.

BlackBart