Kt7 boot devices plus windows 2000

[Guest]

Is anyone else having a problem using a 100mb zip drive connected to the normal ide controller (non-hpoint) ?

It is installed as a primary master on mobo with deskstar 30GB connected to raid ide port - problem being that windows 2000 install detects the zip disk and uses it to write it's bootsector! net result - machine only boots from zip disk!!

Remove the zip drive, install 2000 then reinstall zip and it looks for bootloader on zip disk! I've tried every setting (all boot devices as ata100raid) and it always looks at the zip drive to boot.

anybody got any ideas

chaz' min.

Mcr

 

[PARTYBOY]

Ritchie,

There may be a setting in the BIOS that disables treating removable disks as fixed disks. If there is, disable it.

If not, you may have to move the ZIP disk so it's no longer primary master.

It sounds like the partition table on the ZIP disk you're using might have one of the partitions flagged as active. If this is the case, then the motherboard (correctly) tries to use this as a boot device. Try fdisking the ZIP drive and removing the active partition.

If you can't get fdisk to do it, you might be able to manually edit sector 0 of the ZIP disk and remove the active flag.

Byte 0x1be of the first sector of the drive, if set to 0x80, indicates that the first partition on the drive is bootable. Change this to a 0x00 to indicate it's not a bootable partition.

-Matt

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There sure as hell ARE user servicable parts inside!

 

[Guest]

Hi partyboy, I'm pretty sure that there aren't any settings to disable removable disks. I've also changed the disk to a slave position, but it still boots!

Using the win2k emergency recovery console i can rewrite the MBR and set the C: drive as bootable, but with the zip drive detached it will not boot from C: - which is really weird.

I'm sure that i used to be able to boot from C: with a zip disk in and it worked fine. maybe 2000 has cocked something up as i'm a bit sceptical of the highpoint drivers...

Cheers for the boot flag hack, if all else fail i'll give it a go.

Ritchie.

Mcr

 

[Guest]

Well here's one for the books:

I sold my voodoo3 recently so fell back on a trusty cirrus logic cl-gd5446 card for my 2D needs. I bought a new creative geforce2 MX ddr last night and switched them over - hey presto, no boot problem.

Weird

Mcr