Hi,
I recently built a new system.
-Kingston HyperX 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model KHX6400D2K2/2G - Retail
(http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134012)
-AMD Athlon II X3 425 Rana 2.7GHz 3 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM3 95W Triple-Core Processor - Retail
(http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103726)
-GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
(http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128394)
I used a 500 GB SATA Seagate hard drive that I had (HD 500G|SEAGATE ST3500418AS)
I also threw an old 250GB IDE Maxor hard drive in there. I installed XP on a partition on the SATA drive and everything was running great. A couple days ago the Maxor hard drive started making clicking noises and didn't sound very good. I didn't have any data on there so I did really think it was a big deal. When I tried to boot up this morning the boot menu stalled when tring to read IDE drives and the Maxor was making allot of noise. I unplugged the drive and tried booting. After it says verifying DMI data pool it stops and says "Disc Boot Failure, Insert System Disc and Press Enter". I don't understand why this is because windows is installed on the SATA drive and unplugging the Maxor shouldn't do anything. The one thing that I think might have something to so with it is that i used the windows install disc to format the Maxor so it might have installed a windows file on there. I made sure that after I formatted the Maxor that I deleted all the files on it. Another thing that I thought was weird that when the computer was booting it would list three chooses for XP to boot from. Again this could be from formatting with the windows disc. So I'm stuck I can't plug the IDE back in and try to delete the partition because it makes noise and freezes when I plug it in. My SATA should boot fine but for some reason its not.
Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks for your help!
I recently built a new system.
-Kingston HyperX 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model KHX6400D2K2/2G - Retail
(http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134012)
-AMD Athlon II X3 425 Rana 2.7GHz 3 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM3 95W Triple-Core Processor - Retail
(http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103726)
-GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
(http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128394)
I used a 500 GB SATA Seagate hard drive that I had (HD 500G|SEAGATE ST3500418AS)
I also threw an old 250GB IDE Maxor hard drive in there. I installed XP on a partition on the SATA drive and everything was running great. A couple days ago the Maxor hard drive started making clicking noises and didn't sound very good. I didn't have any data on there so I did really think it was a big deal. When I tried to boot up this morning the boot menu stalled when tring to read IDE drives and the Maxor was making allot of noise. I unplugged the drive and tried booting. After it says verifying DMI data pool it stops and says "Disc Boot Failure, Insert System Disc and Press Enter". I don't understand why this is because windows is installed on the SATA drive and unplugging the Maxor shouldn't do anything. The one thing that I think might have something to so with it is that i used the windows install disc to format the Maxor so it might have installed a windows file on there. I made sure that after I formatted the Maxor that I deleted all the files on it. Another thing that I thought was weird that when the computer was booting it would list three chooses for XP to boot from. Again this could be from formatting with the windows disc. So I'm stuck I can't plug the IDE back in and try to delete the partition because it makes noise and freezes when I plug it in. My SATA should boot fine but for some reason its not.
Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks for your help!