XP is booting up, started requiring the disk?
Hello New user here,
I installed XP on a new computer. First time I installed an OS. After installing with a friend I was able to boot up fine. Recently I tried to make a boot disk and a system disk. When I later booted up XP now gives me an error saying it does not detect a boot disk and I can only boot up when I put the XP disk in. Has anyone else run into this problem. I am using XP professional upgrade.
thnx,
Robert
Works now - figured out the problem
Hello BB and Reverend,
Reverend's suggestion made me look at the cmos again. I found why it wasn't working. On the choices of boot device ide 1 was the choice after floppy drive. My motherboard manual has ide 1 and ide 2 labeled. When I went into cmos and started looking around I saw that there was an ide 0 choice. To make a long story short my motherboard manual calls them ide 1 and ide 2, but the cmos considered them to be ide 0 and ide 1. In CMOS Ide 1 was set as cd rom (ide 2 on the motherboard actually) so it skipped my hard drive which was actually on ide 0 (ide 1 for the motherboard manual).
Alls well that ends well, thnx for the help.
-Robert