DaKeith Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 yea, little tired, not making much sense to myself after reading it again lol. this isnt a new hdd is are what happen to make u want to reformatt this drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 yea, little tired, not making much sense to myself after reading it again lol. this isnt a new hdd is are what happen to make u want to reformatt this drive Here I will try and make this a little more sense for all of you. Here is the story! I wanted to install the Vista Beta so I decided to try and add an extra HDD to my system but had no luck. I gave up on that, and put everything back in and got blue screen on my 250gb hdd which is my good one. So yeah it wouldn't load jack just kept restarting, so I formatted it and now when it loads it say missing operating system, good for right now. and now I need to get the dvd drive to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaKeith Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 im guessing u dont have a spare cdrom drive laying around do u? are u could try this, go into bios and put cdrom as first boot option if u have not done it allready Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 im guessing u dont have a spare cdrom drive laying around do u? are u could try this, go into bios and put cdrom as first boot option if u have not done it allready I set it to first boot and still nothing. I do not have an extra disc drive, except in my other pc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaKeith Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 if u have the time u could take the other out and just put it on top of ur pc(make sure it dosent fall) and just run ur cables up to it and see what happens from there, but i wouldnt think ur dvd drive is bad, it was working before right? u could always try this, go to MS and download the startup disk for xp and use them to get started and that way u couldn cdrom support but u are going to need 6 disk for that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 Ahhh no one knows what could be the problem?? I am getting mad now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaKeith Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 i know the feeling, trust me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 if u have the time u could take the other out and just put it on top of ur pc(make sure it dosent fall) and just run ur cables up to it and see what happens from there, but i wouldnt think ur dvd drive is bad, it was working before right? u could always try this, go to MS and download the startup disk for xp and use them to get started and that way u couldn cdrom support but u are going to need 6 disk for that 6 floppy you mean? I would like to get the DVD Rom to work so I am done with everything and have nothing to mess with. I don't see what else could be the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 whats the problem ur having ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 whats the problem ur having ? My dvd burner will not read so I can install windows..but it works fine if I remove the HDD.. tried reseting the cmos, and yeah getting mad! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaKeith Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 yes, i meant floopy disk but maybe Disturbed has a few ideas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 This is the weirdest thing I have seen EVER. The disc drive loads the windows disc fine with the HDD unplugged. Then plug it back in and nothing just says missing operating system and will not load a disc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 1st things 1st....if you have 2 devices on the same IDE channel, make sure one is set to Master and one to Slave - if you run only one device on an IDE channel, it will be best if you set it up as Master 2nd go to the bios section - most likely by pressing the DEL key or the F10 key while booting up - once you are there look for a section to adjust ur boot devices - make sure your primary boot device is that cd/dvd drive, 2nd ur hard drive with, and 3rd whatever - when u set it up that way, save bios settings, restart, and if you have a bootable cd/dvd in the drive it will tell you booting from cd - press any key to continue - press a key to boot from it that should solve ur problem, unless something else needs setting up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 1st things 1st....if you have 2 devices on the same IDE channel, make sure one is set to Master and one to Slave - if you run only one device on an IDE channel, it will be best if you set it up as Master 2nd go to the bios section - most likely by pressing the DEL key or the F10 key while booting up - once you are there look for a section to adjust ur boot devices - make sure your primary boot device is that cd/dvd drive, 2nd ur hard drive with, and 3rd whatever - when u set it up that way, save bios settings, restart, and if you have a bootable cd/dvd in the drive it will tell you booting from cd - press any key to continue - press a key to boot from it that should solve ur problem, unless something else needs setting up Tried all of it. Right now I have two seperate IDE cables, both set to Master. It's also set to load up DVD Burner first. We tried clearing CMOS, nothing. My dad thinks the HDD shorted and is causing it. I don't get why the DVD burner will play the windows disc without HDD connected to the system, but when both are connected just loads up saying missing OS. Do you think a HDD short caused this'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaKeith Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 going to ask a stupid question, but this xp disk is bootable right, not a copied disk are anyting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 going to ask a stupid question, but this xp disk is bootable right, not a copied disk are anyting It's burnt, and yeah I have the original to. Like to keep back ups so I do not scratch original but yeah neither original or burnt work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 Like I said though again. The disc boots without the Hard Drive connected for some odd reason, but with the HDD connected I get nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 hm....its hard to say what the problem could be - could you hook up both the dvd drive and the hard drive at the same time and go to BIOS to see if it actually recognizes both drives ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 hm....its hard to say what the problem could be - could you hook up both the dvd drive and the hard drive at the same time and go to BIOS to see if it actually recognizes both drives ? Yeah they are both hooked up to seperate IDE cables and am in BIOS and it shows both there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaKeith Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 well this is the last thing i can think of trying, download the xp startup disk and extract them to 6 floppy disk the reason for doing it that way, u get the option for cdrom support, if that doesnt work i am out of ideas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 assuming you have the boot order set up correctly, and assuming that the cd starts booting when you have the drive connected, something hardware wise might be wrong - but thats assuming you actually have everything set up correctly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 Wow I have another weird problem. I got everything to work right again by removing the covertype deal thing off any of the pins on the DVD drive. Would it hurt it if I left it off? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaKeith Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 so everything is working again and about the other problem, not sure what ua re talking about, butifs working good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted March 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 Actually I totally fixed it now! But one thing I have to ask, Ok before in BIOS my dvd burner reads as LS something..So I set that to first boot nothing loads, no I tried cd-rom..why would CD rom work but not the one actually named my drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted March 10, 2006 CID Share Posted March 10, 2006 what do you mean ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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