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  1. Aug 1st, 2002, 08:22 AM #1
    Dennis Wrenn
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    Boot Record

    Hey guys,

    I just built my own computer and I'm having some problems. I hooked everything up right, and the computer turns on, but when I try to boot it says it's searching for the boot record (it searches floppy, ide 0, cdrom, and scsi(I don't have scsi though)). Even when I have a bootdisk in the floppy drive it says this.

    I had an old 1.5gb HDD that I previously had windows installed on and tried hooking that up. It until past the Windows 2000 startup screen(w/ the progress bar) Then a blue screen came up that said something about the boot record, and it said if I installed any new IDE channels or harddrives to remove them and try retstarting the computer.

    The bootdisk I tried booting from is for windows 98SE. Is there anyway I can get into DOS? I'm making a boot disk for DOS 6.22 right now to see if that will work.


    Any help is greatly appreciated.

    Thanks,
    Dennis

    Edit: I tried the DOS 6.22 boot disk and I had the same results. Here is more info on the error.

    Searching Floppy ... Not Found
    Searching IDE 0 ... Not Found
    Searching CD-ROM ... Not Found
    Searching SCSI ... Not Found

    Boot Failure. Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device.
    Last edited by Dennis Wrenn; Aug 1st, 2002 at 08:54 AM.
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  2. Aug 1st, 2002, 08:59 AM #2
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    It sounds like you have a drive connection problem - most likely cables loose/plugged in wrongly.

    Go into your BIOS options (before it gets to the stage you mention below you should see a message like "Press F10 for options"), and run "detect drives" or whatever it is called on your machine.

    This should then tell you what hard drives are connected properly.
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  3. Aug 1st, 2002, 09:05 AM #3
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    I use auto detect ide in BIOS setup and it detects my HDD, my CDRW and my DVDROM, The first time I tried booting up, I accidently had the hard drive set as slave so no primary master showed up, but that's fixed now and has been fixed. FYI, The harddrive is brand new, never partitioned or formatted.
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    In that case you will need to boot from floppy to format the hard disk, from what you said before it sounds as though the floppy drive isn't connected properly (I've had that a few times)...

    Is the light on the floppy drive on all the time? Does it just light when it should (ie: when it is looking for bootable devices)?

    If it is on all the time the cable is plugged in backwards
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  6. Aug 1st, 2002, 09:11 AM #5
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    That was the problem. Thanks a lot!
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  7. Aug 1st, 2002, 09:34 AM #6
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    OMG Dennis lives welcome back
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  8. Aug 1st, 2002, 12:38 PM #7
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    I always seem to get the IDE cables mixed up when i do that kind of crap
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