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On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 23:20:16 GMT, joevan <joevvan@joevanudity.net>
wrote:
>On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:33:59 GMT, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:58:40 GMT, joevan
>><joevvan@joevanudity.net> wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:15:13 GMT, LegMan <legman_@999hotmail.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>joevan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have boot disk and have checked the bios but
>>>>> am not sure if I am doing the right thing.
>>>>> I would appreciate a bit of help.
>>>>> It is a new system, with an Asus z7n8x-x MB, Antec 350 power pac
>>>>> Maxtor 60 gig SATA HD, floppy and cdrw-DVD player. Added SATA card and
>>>>> have all connected. How do I get the system to recognize the boot disk
>>>>> or am I doing something wrong?
>>>>> I am obviously new at this. Any step by step help would be greatly
>>>>> appreciated.
>>>>> joevan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Somewhere in the BIOS is a place where you can set the boot sequence.
>>>>More likely than not, it's probably set to boot from the CD first,
>>>>then the first hard drive, etc. You'll have to change the first boot
>>>>device to "Floppy".
>>>>
>>>>HTH,
>>>>
>>>>Charlie LegMan (remove 999 for eMail)
>>>I tried with the floppy as 1st boot and then with the CD as first boot
>>>and it keeps asking for a boot disk, as though it can't see the
>>>floppy, but yet it is there in the first information when starting.
>>>joevan
>>
>>Might be a silly question but is the floppy bootable?
>>When you go though the POST sequence and it looks for bootable
>>devices, do you see the floppy access light, which had remained
>>off, turn on for a moment while it checks floppy boot sector?
>This is what I posted to 24hoursupport.helpdesk
>
>Here is an update as best as I can remember it all.
>I did find another IDE cable and installed it, that helped a lot. I
>guess the one they sent was defective
>I finally got Madboot and it helped. At one point the cd rom was found
>and windows was checking out the machine and then stalled. I got it
>back later and it was going to load windows but it said it could not
>find a drive with enough room. I have a sata 60 gig drive which shows
>up using madboot. Windows can't find it for some reason.
>I had to install a sata card and use a power adapter instead of
>powering it the usual way.
>That seems to be the only problem now is having windows find the
>drive.
>joevan
To make a long story as short as I can.
I disconnected the SATA and installed an old 4 gig IDE.
For some reason I though if I can get 98 or some other OS installed
then I can use it to get to xp. I was getting all sorts of cable
errors trying to load xp.
So I loaded 98, then a few programs.
Next I put the xp disk in and it opened and set up. I intervened to
format in NTFS but it was like a textbook install all in all.
I don't know why I could not install from the cd with xp direct but
the work around sure saved the day.
joevan
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