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Boot disk not found start up error

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by njanear

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Bonehead, your hard drive crashed! Which I thought immediately, but here are the symptoms: User returns after weekend to good ol' blue screen, apparently someone was messing with his NT workstation over the weekend. I reboot it and get a Boot disk not found, insert start up disk yada yada. I notice the CD rom light is lit and won't open. For grins I disconnect the CD and reboot, volah, the system boots up, replace CD and volah, system boots up. Well, aparently not so...The system hung up on him opening Oracle, reboot, same problem, won't detect Primary Master (Maxtor HD) or Secondary (CD). Which was the problem in the first place (not detecting IDE drives), Is it the IDE controller on the motherboard?

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by adelhier

I first would not put the CD ROM on the same channel as the hard disk. Second is this the same CD rom and if so replace the CD rom with a new one. I have seen this error when the cd rom is going bad. If that dose not work your ide chip set is going bad on the mother board.

Andy

by njanear

Did that, didn't work, took hard drive out and put it in other PC for quick fix. Definately motherboard, probably your answer as well.

Thanks,

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by csmith

There is nothing wrong with the IDE Controller.
When the IDE Controller goes bad, you have, nothing under under any circumstances, or the PC freezes in the boot, when it gets to the Hard Drive Recoginition part of the POST.

This is a bad cable connector, or corrosion on a pin.
The connector failure, is more than 95% of the time, the problem.
Change the IDE Cable for the first test.
The point made in the other answer about IDE channel use is correct.
Put the Hard drive on the first IDE Channel, and put the CD-ROM on the second IDE Channel.
This prevents BIOS detection bugs from slowing down your PC.
Regards, Chris

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