non-system disk - heh...

[Androme]

i got my new pc set-up jobby etc. - installed, all working fine.

then I earthed myself, before I went to install my old hdd mentioned in a thread a wile ago - main hdd is Prim. Master, CD-RW is Secondary Master & DVD-ROM is Secondary Slave

so I set the jumper setting on the 2nd hdd as Slave, put it in, connected it to the same ide cable as the 1st hdd, and booted up - but it came up with the non-system disk error message - so I took out the 2nd hdd (booted down first) and checked cables - same message

I cannot fdisk from a floppy as I have no floppies with fdisk.exe & the other files etc. and since the CMOS doesn't seem to recognise my HDD, I'm in a fuddle - I do remember once, with an old PC, when I fiddled around with changing the settings from Auto to something else in CMOS, I got that HDD in that PC working but I'm unsure of how to manually set the settings in cmos so that I can then reinstall windows or delete the partition and reinstall or wahtever ... heh...

sys details:

mobo: MSI neo-2 865PE, cpu: 2.8ghz p4 800mhz fsb, mem: 1gb ddr400, hdd: maxtor 120gb ata100

I'm off to consult the maxtor website to see if there's any fixes but atm. I'm without a pc at a time when I need it most heh... - thanks for any help.

[Flavius]

check if the jumper on master disk isnt set to 'Master Single' or 'Master without Slave'

[NEWSBOT3]

Originally posted by Androme2

boot from CD ?

[Androme]

nb3: the hdd wasn't being recognized so even the recovery cd didn't work, and the best option to if at least the partiton was still intact didn't work (fdisk)

anyway, under warranty, I got a replacement and everything is good as new, although I do experience some random crashes due to my gfx card (odd) - I did oc it once but it's back to defaults now