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Need Help to Boot From DVD drive
I am pretty sure I have booted from this DVD drive in the past, but
now I cannot. In fact, I know I did - else how could I have installed XP in the first place. I wanted to verify that a disk I just made was bootable, and I find that the boot-up process is not even looking for a bootable disk. When I checked the BIOS, the drive is nowhere to be seen. Yet after WXP comes up, My Computer shows it just fine. And I can use it to make a disk as well as read a disk. I have examined the BIOS, and see no option whereby booting from disk is 'suppressed'. In fact, the drive is not even shown in the BIOS for some reason. Of course that must be the problem causing me to not be able to boot from that drive. I can't add it to the BIOS boot sequence. The drive is a double-layer New Technology 8.5G drive. The BIOS apparently is FASTRAK 378 V100.0.37. What could be causing this? Anyone? Thanks Jethro |
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Need Help to Boot From DVD drive
Jethro wrote:
I am pretty sure I have booted from this DVD drive in the past, but now I cannot. In fact, I know I did - else how could I have installed XP in the first place. I wanted to verify that a disk I just made was bootable, and I find that the boot-up process is not even looking for a bootable disk. When I checked the BIOS, the drive is nowhere to be seen. Yet after WXP comes up, My Computer shows it just fine. And I can use it to make a disk as well as read a disk. I have examined the BIOS, and see no option whereby booting from disk is 'suppressed'. In fact, the drive is not even shown in the BIOS for some reason. Of course that must be the problem causing me to not be able to boot from that drive. I can't add it to the BIOS boot sequence. Have you got that drive type entry set to AUTO or to NONE ? If its set to AUTO as it should be, try with just that drive on the ribbon cable its on and check its jumpers. The drive is a double-layer New Technology 8.5G drive. The BIOS apparently is FASTRAK 378 V100.0.37. What could be causing this? Usually you dont have the drive type entry set to AUTO. Can be because it doesnt pair with something else on the particular ribbon cable properly. XP does its own scan for drives and so can find what the BIOS cant. |
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Need Help to Boot From DVD drive
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:58:43 +1100, "Rod Speed"
wrote: Jethro wrote: I am pretty sure I have booted from this DVD drive in the past, but now I cannot. In fact, I know I did - else how could I have installed XP in the first place. I wanted to verify that a disk I just made was bootable, and I find that the boot-up process is not even looking for a bootable disk. When I checked the BIOS, the drive is nowhere to be seen. Yet after WXP comes up, My Computer shows it just fine. And I can use it to make a disk as well as read a disk. I have examined the BIOS, and see no option whereby booting from disk is 'suppressed'. In fact, the drive is not even shown in the BIOS for some reason. Of course that must be the problem causing me to not be able to boot from that drive. I can't add it to the BIOS boot sequence. Have you got that drive type entry set to AUTO or to NONE ? If its set to AUTO as it should be, try with just that drive on the ribbon cable its on and check its jumpers. The drive is a double-layer New Technology 8.5G drive. The BIOS apparently is FASTRAK 378 V100.0.37. What could be causing this? Usually you dont have the drive type entry set to AUTO. If I read you right, you mean to set it to AUTO in the BIOS? I can't do that because the drive does not appear anywhere in the BIOS. I'll make it the only drive on IDE secondary channel to see effect, Can be because it doesnt pair with something else on the particular ribbon cable properly. XP does its own scan for drives and so can find what the BIOS cant. |
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Need Help to Boot From DVD drive
Look in the BIOS for "reset configuration data" or something similar and enable it. Jethro wrote: I am pretty sure I have booted from this DVD drive in the past, but now I cannot. In fact, I know I did - else how could I have installed XP in the first place. I wanted to verify that a disk I just made was bootable, and I find that the boot-up process is not even looking for a bootable disk. When I checked the BIOS, the drive is nowhere to be seen. Yet after WXP comes up, My Computer shows it just fine. And I can use it to make a disk as well as read a disk. I have examined the BIOS, and see no option whereby booting from disk is 'suppressed'. In fact, the drive is not even shown in the BIOS for some reason. Of course that must be the problem causing me to not be able to boot from that drive. I can't add it to the BIOS boot sequence. -- Mike Walsh West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. |
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Need Help to Boot From DVD drive
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:58:43 +1100, "Rod Speed"
wrote: Jethro wrote: I am pretty sure I have booted from this DVD drive in the past, but now I cannot. In fact, I know I did - else how could I have installed XP in the first place. I wanted to verify that a disk I just made was bootable, and I find that the boot-up process is not even looking for a bootable disk. When I checked the BIOS, the drive is nowhere to be seen. Yet after WXP comes up, My Computer shows it just fine. And I can use it to make a disk as well as read a disk. I have examined the BIOS, and see no option whereby booting from disk is 'suppressed'. In fact, the drive is not even shown in the BIOS for some reason. Of course that must be the problem causing me to not be able to boot from that drive. I can't add it to the BIOS boot sequence. Have you got that drive type entry set to AUTO or to NONE ? If its set to AUTO as it should be, try with just that drive on the ribbon cable its on and check its jumpers. The drive is a double-layer New Technology 8.5G drive. The BIOS apparently is FASTRAK 378 V100.0.37. What could be causing this? Usually you dont have the drive type entry set to AUTO. Can be because it doesnt pair with something else on the particular ribbon cable properly. This is pretty wild. I had a boot HDD as primary IDE master. I had a second HDD as secondary IDE master. I had the DVD drive as secondary IDE slave. There was no primary IDE slave. As I said before, the all the drives had been working fine but then I discovered that I could not boot from the DVD drive nor could I find the DVD drive in the BIOS at all. I first removed the second HDD from the machine entirely and changed the DVD drive to secondary IDE master. It worked fine - Showed in the BIOS and it was bootable. I next replaced the second HDD into the system as secondary IDE slave. Not only did the DVD drive stop working, the second HDD didn't work either - neither was recognized in the BIOS at all. I next moved the second HDD to primary IDE slave. It worked just fine, as did the DVD drive. The DVD drive was bootable. Having both HDD drives on the same IDE channel did show a noticeably slower process speed however. Now I'm stuck. Thanks for your ideas anyway. Jethro XP does its own scan for drives and so can find what the BIOS cant. |
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Need Help to Boot From DVD drive
Jethro wrote Rod Speed wrote Jethro wrote: I am pretty sure I have booted from this DVD drive in the past, but now I cannot. In fact, I know I did - else how could I have installed XP in the first place. I wanted to verify that a disk I just made was bootable, and I find that the boot-up process is not even looking for a bootable disk. When I checked the BIOS, the drive is nowhere to be seen. Yet after WXP comes up, My Computer shows it just fine. And I can use it to make a disk as well as read a disk. I have examined the BIOS, and see no option whereby booting from disk is 'suppressed'. In fact, the drive is not even shown in the BIOS for some reason. Of course that must be the problem causing me to not be able to boot from that drive. I can't add it to the BIOS boot sequence. Have you got that drive type entry set to AUTO or to NONE ? If its set to AUTO as it should be, try with just that drive on the ribbon cable its on and check its jumpers. The drive is a double-layer New Technology 8.5G drive. The BIOS apparently is FASTRAK 378 V100.0.37. What could be causing this? Usually you dont have the drive type entry set to AUTO. Can be because it doesnt pair with something else on the particular ribbon cable properly. This is pretty wild. Nope. You've just got the drive type entry set to NONE. I had a boot HDD as primary IDE master. I had a second HDD as secondary IDE master. I had the DVD drive as secondary IDE slave. There was no primary IDE slave. Thats fine, but you likely just have the drive type entry for the secondary slave set to NONE. As I said before, the all the drives had been working fine but then I discovered that I could not boot from the DVD drive nor could I find the DVD drive in the BIOS at all. Likely because you have the secondary slave drive type set to NONE. I first removed the second HDD from the machine entirely and changed the DVD drive to secondary IDE master. It worked fine - Showed in the BIOS and it was bootable. Because the secondary master drive type is AUTO and the DVD drive is no longer on the drive type entry that is set to NONE. I next replaced the second HDD into the system as secondary IDE slave. Not only did the DVD drive stop working, the second HDD didn't work either - neither was recognized in the BIOS at all. Likely because the jumpering now isnt correct. I next moved the second HDD to primary IDE slave. It worked just fine, as did the DVD drive. The DVD drive was bootable. Because the drives have AUTO drive type entrys. Just set the secondary slave drive type entry to AUTO and it should work fine in the original config. Having both HDD drives on the same IDE channel did show a noticeably slower process speed however. Dont believe it and that was the original config anyway. Now I'm stuck. No you arent, just set all the drive type entrys to AUTO. Thanks for your ideas anyway. XP does its own scan for drives and so can find what the BIOS cant. |
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Need Help to Boot From DVD drive
Jethro wrote
Rod Speed wrote Jethro wrote I am pretty sure I have booted from this DVD drive in the past, but now I cannot. In fact, I know I did - else how could I have installed XP in the first place. I wanted to verify that a disk I just made was bootable, and I find that the boot-up process is not even looking for a bootable disk. When I checked the BIOS, the drive is nowhere to be seen. Yet after WXP comes up, My Computer shows it just fine. And I can use it to make a disk as well as read a disk. I have examined the BIOS, and see no option whereby booting from disk is 'suppressed'. In fact, the drive is not even shown in the BIOS for some reason. Of course that must be the problem causing me to not be able to boot from that drive. I can't add it to the BIOS boot sequence. Have you got that drive type entry set to AUTO or to NONE ? If its set to AUTO as it should be, try with just that drive on the ribbon cable its on and check its jumpers. The drive is a double-layer New Technology 8.5G drive. The BIOS apparently is FASTRAK 378 V100.0.37. What could be causing this? Usually you dont have the drive type entry set to AUTO. If I read you right, you mean to set it to AUTO in the BIOS? Yes, the drive type entry for that particular entry should be AUTO. In fact all the drive types should be AUTO, likely at least that one is set to NONE. I can't do that because the drive does not appear anywhere in the BIOS. It wont when the corresponding drive type entry is set to NONE. This is the main drive type entry, usually with 4 entrys, for primary master and slave and secondary master and slave. I'll make it the only drive on IDE secondary channel to see effect, Wont help if the drive type entry is NONE. Can be because it doesnt pair with something else on the particular ribbon cable properly. XP does its own scan for drives and so can find what the BIOS cant. |
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Need Help to Boot From DVD drive
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:44:50 +1100, "Rod Speed"
wrote: Jethro wrote Rod Speed wrote Jethro wrote: I am pretty sure I have booted from this DVD drive in the past, but now I cannot. In fact, I know I did - else how could I have installed XP in the first place. I wanted to verify that a disk I just made was bootable, and I find that the boot-up process is not even looking for a bootable disk. When I checked the BIOS, the drive is nowhere to be seen. Yet after WXP comes up, My Computer shows it just fine. And I can use it to make a disk as well as read a disk. I have examined the BIOS, and see no option whereby booting from disk is 'suppressed'. In fact, the drive is not even shown in the BIOS for some reason. Of course that must be the problem causing me to not be able to boot from that drive. I can't add it to the BIOS boot sequence. Have you got that drive type entry set to AUTO or to NONE ? If its set to AUTO as it should be, try with just that drive on the ribbon cable its on and check its jumpers. The drive is a double-layer New Technology 8.5G drive. The BIOS apparently is FASTRAK 378 V100.0.37. What could be causing this? Usually you dont have the drive type entry set to AUTO. Can be because it doesnt pair with something else on the particular ribbon cable properly. This is pretty wild. Nope. You've just got the drive type entry set to NONE. I had a boot HDD as primary IDE master. ==================================== I had a second HDD as secondary IDE master.================================= I had the DVD drive as secondary IDE slave. There was no primary IDE slave. Thats fine, but you likely just have the drive type entry for the secondary slave set to NONE. As I said before, the all the drives had been working fine but then I discovered that I could not boot from the DVD drive nor could I find the DVD drive in the BIOS at all. Likely because you have the secondary slave drive type set to NONE. I first removed the second HDD from the machine entirely and changed the DVD drive to secondary IDE master. It worked fine - Showed in the BIOS and it was bootable. Because the secondary master drive type is AUTO and the DVD drive is no longer on the drive type entry that is set to NONE. I next replaced the second HDD into the system as secondary IDE slave. Not only did the DVD drive stop working, the second HDD didn't work either - neither was recognized in the BIOS at all. Likely because the jumpering now isnt correct. I next moved the second HDD to primary IDE slave. It worked just fine, as did the DVD drive. The DVD drive was bootable. Because the drives have AUTO drive type entrys. Just set the secondary slave drive type entry to AUTO and it should work fine in the original config. Having both HDD drives on the same IDE channel did show a noticeably slower process speed however. Dont believe it and that was the original config anyway. Uhuh, As I tried to sat above (arrows), originally the two HDDs were on different IDE channels and both masters. I'll check this 'auto' business again. Thanks Jethro Now I'm stuck. No you arent, just set all the drive type entrys to AUTO. Thanks for your ideas anyway. XP does its own scan for drives and so can find what the BIOS cant. |
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Need Help to Boot From DVD drive
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:44:50 +1100, "Rod Speed"
wrote: Jethro wrote Rod Speed wrote Jethro wrote: I am pretty sure I have booted from this DVD drive in the past, but now I cannot. In fact, I know I did - else how could I have installed XP in the first place. I wanted to verify that a disk I just made was bootable, and I find that the boot-up process is not even looking for a bootable disk. When I checked the BIOS, the drive is nowhere to be seen. Yet after WXP comes up, My Computer shows it just fine. And I can use it to make a disk as well as read a disk. I have examined the BIOS, and see no option whereby booting from disk is 'suppressed'. In fact, the drive is not even shown in the BIOS for some reason. Of course that must be the problem causing me to not be able to boot from that drive. I can't add it to the BIOS boot sequence. Have you got that drive type entry set to AUTO or to NONE ? If its set to AUTO as it should be, try with just that drive on the ribbon cable its on and check its jumpers. The drive is a double-layer New Technology 8.5G drive. The BIOS apparently is FASTRAK 378 V100.0.37. What could be causing this? Usually you dont have the drive type entry set to AUTO. Can be because it doesnt pair with something else on the particular ribbon cable properly. This is pretty wild. Nope. You've just got the drive type entry set to NONE. I had a boot HDD as primary IDE master. I had a second HDD as secondary IDE master. I had the DVD drive as secondary IDE slave. There was no primary IDE slave. Thats fine, but you likely just have the drive type entry for the secondary slave set to NONE. As I said before, the all the drives had been working fine but then I discovered that I could not boot from the DVD drive nor could I find the DVD drive in the BIOS at all. Likely because you have the secondary slave drive type set to NONE. I first removed the second HDD from the machine entirely and changed the DVD drive to secondary IDE master. It worked fine - Showed in the BIOS and it was bootable. Because the secondary master drive type is AUTO and the DVD drive is no longer on the drive type entry that is set to NONE. I next replaced the second HDD into the system as secondary IDE slave. Not only did the DVD drive stop working, the second HDD didn't work either - neither was recognized in the BIOS at all. Likely because the jumpering now isnt correct. I next moved the second HDD to primary IDE slave. It worked just fine, as did the DVD drive. The DVD drive was bootable. Because the drives have AUTO drive type entrys. Just set the secondary slave drive type entry to AUTO and it should work fine in the original config. Having both HDD drives on the same IDE channel did show a noticeably slower process speed however. Dont believe it and that was the original config anyway. Now I'm stuck. No you arent, just set all the drive type entrys to AUTO. Thanks for your ideas anyway. XP does its own scan for drives and so can find what the BIOS cant. All three drives (both HDDs and the DVD) are set to AUTO in the BIOS in the last configuration above. |
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Need Help to Boot From DVD drive
Jethro wrote Rod Speed wrote Jethro wrote Rod Speed wrote Jethro wrote: I am pretty sure I have booted from this DVD drive in the past, but now I cannot. In fact, I know I did - else how could I have installed XP in the first place. I wanted to verify that a disk I just made was bootable, and I find that the boot-up process is not even looking for a bootable disk. When I checked the BIOS, the drive is nowhere to be seen. Yet after WXP comes up, My Computer shows it just fine. And I can use it to make a disk as well as read a disk. I have examined the BIOS, and see no option whereby booting from disk is 'suppressed'. In fact, the drive is not even shown in the BIOS for some reason. Of course that must be the problem causing me to not be able to boot from that drive. I can't add it to the BIOS boot sequence. Have you got that drive type entry set to AUTO or to NONE ? If its set to AUTO as it should be, try with just that drive on the ribbon cable its on and check its jumpers. The drive is a double-layer New Technology 8.5G drive. The BIOS apparently is FASTRAK 378 V100.0.37. What could be causing this? Usually you dont have the drive type entry set to AUTO. Can be because it doesnt pair with something else on the particular ribbon cable properly. This is pretty wild. Nope. You've just got the drive type entry set to NONE. I had a boot HDD as primary IDE master. I had a second HDD as secondary IDE master. I had the DVD drive as secondary IDE slave. There was no primary IDE slave. Thats fine, but you likely just have the drive type entry for the secondary slave set to NONE. As I said before, the all the drives had been working fine but then I discovered that I could not boot from the DVD drive nor could I find the DVD drive in the BIOS at all. Likely because you have the secondary slave drive type set to NONE. I first removed the second HDD from the machine entirely and changed the DVD drive to secondary IDE master. It worked fine - Showed in the BIOS and it was bootable. Because the secondary master drive type is AUTO and the DVD drive is no longer on the drive type entry that is set to NONE. I next replaced the second HDD into the system as secondary IDE slave. Not only did the DVD drive stop working, the second HDD didn't work either - neither was recognized in the BIOS at all. Likely because the jumpering now isnt correct. I next moved the second HDD to primary IDE slave. It worked just fine, as did the DVD drive. The DVD drive was bootable. Because the drives have AUTO drive type entrys. Just set the secondary slave drive type entry to AUTO and it should work fine in the original config. Having both HDD drives on the same IDE channel did show a noticeably slower process speed however. Dont believe it and that was the original config anyway. Now I'm stuck. No you arent, just set all the drive type entrys to AUTO. Thanks for your ideas anyway. XP does its own scan for drives and so can find what the BIOS cant. All three drives (both HDDs and the DVD) are set to AUTO in the BIOS in the last configuration above. Yes, but what matters is whether all FOUR drive type entrys are set to AUTO for the original config to work. |
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