Hard Drive Error code

[Guest]

I would appreciate any help- I am a newbie , building my first system, based upon a 1 ghz Thunderbird, Abit KT-7RAID mb, twin IBM Deskstar GXP75 30 gig hdd. Installation of everything went fine, I made it through the BIOS with out too much hassle, but then I have hit a wall. I get an error message of "Disc boot failure, install System disk, and press enter". My question: WHAT system disc? I have tried installing a boot disc I made for Windows 2000, the Windows 2000 disc itself, and the IBM "DiskGo" disc I downloaded from the IBM site. What am I doing wrong? BIOS seems to be set up exactly as the book says, with the majority of the settings set to default, except for those I changed for the RAID 0 array. I have removed all cards except the graphics card, and that made no difference. I have a brand new Panasonic fdd, Yamaha CD-RW, and NEC CD-ROM, all of which the system recognizes. If anyone can help me, I'd appreciate it greatly. Please use plain , simple english, because my brain is frazzled, and I'm a newbie to all this. Thanks for any and all assistance!

 

[Guest]

I'm a bit confused. I assume the Win2k boot disk is from another PC and you haven't actually gotten past that error? It sound like you may not have the boot sequence set up correctly? Read this for specific instructions:

<A HREF="http://www.apushardware.com/?action=articles&id=22" target="_new">http://www.apushardware.com/?action=articles&id=22</A>

Mike

 

[Guest]

yeah I'm quite sure you just need to set it to boot from the floppy, then raid, etc, etc. This is a normal setup. Some people leave it like this all the time so they can boot from floppy without having to enter the bios everytime (I'm sure there are some who don't).

If you set the bios to boot from a device that has a hard disk, I'm quite sure most bioses will not simply pass it up and move on to the next bootable drive. This is probably because hd are not removable media, and it's safe to assume you probably would like to boot some form of OS.. and notified of any error that may prevent you from doing this






***Hey I run Intel... but let's get real***

 

[Guest]

In response: Yes , I created a boot disk for Windows 2000 off of my other computer, for use on the new one.
Re: the BIOS response- If I understand you correctly, I was supposed to install the operating system BEFORE I configured the RAID array? So I should delete the RAID setup, and change the BIOS back to the default settings, install the OS, and then create the RAID again? Being a newbie, I followed the motherboard manual page by page, and it was unclear about when to install the OS. Thanks again for all assistance!

 

[Guest]

An afterthought- does the OS reside entirely upon one hard drive, and all the software installed after creating the RAID 0 array reside in striped form across the two drives? Or is all software residing on one drive, and just subsequent data striped across both drives? The BIOS carries a warning that "all data will be lost" when creating a RAID. Does that exclude the OS? Thnaks again

 

[Kodiak]

ALL data is striped across two drives in RAID 0. If its one one HDD, part of it is on second HDD... RAID controller has no clue whether its part of your OS, Games, Documents, whatever... it's all ones and zeroes as far as it is concerned

 

[Guest]

raid is not the problem from what i'm understanding. you can not boot from the disk because the first device to boot in your bios is set to yout hard drive and not the floppy. you have to change that first then if you are istalling win2k just follow the prompts. in win9X you have to partition format then install. I think i got it all 😉

 

[Guest]

Marek gets the gold star by his name..

Again, in the bios, there will be an option for Boot Sequence (where it is depends on version of bios, but it's generally in Bios Features or Boot section of the bios). This tells the bios too look for a bootable OS on a device in a certain order. You need to have it scan the floppy first ..then the RAID.. as you have no bootable OS on the RAID config.

BTW- I believe Win2k has a 32Gig limit on FAT32 paritions by design. If you want the entire 60G RAID config to be one partition, use NTFS. If you are not networked with other comps nor dual booting Win9X, it's a better file system anyways.

***Hey I run Intel... but let's get real***