disk in that optical drive. At the very least I would expect it to boot and run from the Install disk before giving you a message that it failed to find a hard drive to use. Even if XP Install failed to boot because the optical is being used as a true SATA...

delete the upper and lower filters.... RESTART YOUR COMPUTER THEN THERE YA GO!!!! HOPE THIS HELPS none of these worked for me.go to bios.ide function set up. set channels optical drives on to mode 1. drives can then be seen in my computer [#ff0000][b...

of there and go into Advanced Peripherals or wherever the Boot Priority is set. Since you have no optical drive in right now, ensure this is set to boot from the 1 TB drive that is there and nothing else. Save and Exit to boot that way. Now that you have the...

Another thing that you might check is in your Bios to make sure that the SATA drive is still set as the boot drive. My system will periodically drop the Sata drive as the boot drive and I have to go into the Bios and reset it as the boot drive. I have...

the two WD Black disks and configuring them. Finish this and go back out to reboot the machine with your Windows Install Disk in the optical drive. It should boot from that optical drive and the Install process early on should ask whether you want to install...

only. (Non-ATAPI) If that is the case just switch the DVD to another port. You may also want to try to press F8 during POST to bring up the boot menu. Then you can manually select the device you wish to boot to. And yes, connect your optical drive to...

best bet is to add an external HD. You can get much faster (10K rpm) drives with external drives. Thanks KBits, boonality and aford10. There is of course no question of not having an optical drive. I have a Western Digital Pocketbook Hard Drive and my brother...

look into it. If you have access to another computer, and your computer will boot from a flash drive, you could download and run Seatools from Seagate to see if the HD is indeed shot. Here's an optical drive worth considering: Ok, will do, also--arn't the...

from groups: microsoft.public.windowsme.general () I got mine, Figglet......nyah, nyah, nah, nyaaaaaah, nyah. Not only that, the end package will have 7 drives, yup, count 'em, 7!!! Heirloom, old and even I have XP "Rick T"...

has no clearly answer is: What the heck happened with Samsung's drive? i have a samsung also, and it will not read after it has spinned down so i have to reinsert the disc every time i want to access it, sam is messed up when it comes to optical drives, I tried...