Ok, here’s the problem I created today…
I am working on a system with an Epox 8K5A2+ motherboard with the Highpoint 370 RAID controller. This box is not currently using RAID, and contains 3 IDE drives. One is set up as the Primary Master on the first RAID controller, the second drive is Secondary Master on the RAID controller, and the third drive is Primary Master on the standard IDE controller. The OS is Windows 2000 Professional.
Norton Disk Doctor today asked if I wanted to correct a problem with a non-bootable partition, and without thinking much I clicked Yes. (doh!) The box then rebooted and couldn’t find a boot drive. After much screwing around, I booted off a DOS disk and checked with Fdisk. Both the original boot disk on the first Highpoint RAID slot and the disk on the primary IDE slot have their partitions marked Active. Apparently the box can’t decide which disk to use and when it reaches the point of polling the drives to search for a boot record, it just stops and sits there.
If I disconnect the IDE drive, the system boots fine off the drive on the first Highpoint slot. Reconnect the IDE drive, boot hangs forever.
I have gone into the HPT370 BIOS to make sure the first drive is identified as the Boot drive.
Lil help? Any relevant input is appreciated.