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  1. sportysk

    can't boot with hd on primary

    I have tried the fdisk /mbr but when I do it while connected to ide1 it says that mbr was NOT updated, but it works when I am connected to ide2 but it still doesn't boot when connected to ide1. The only thing I didn't try is a low level format on this hard drive.
  2. sportysk

    can't boot with hd on primary

    I am using an 80 pin cable and have tried the jumper settings as master and cable select and with it on the middle and the end connector but when it is connected to the ide1 socket on the mobo I get the "disk Failure" message when I try to boot. It used to work fine connected to the...
  3. sportysk

    can't boot with hd on primary

    I recently tried to set up a dual boot system using xosl and now I'm having grief. I had an old hd with win98 and all my drivers loaded that wasn't installed when I was experimenting so I figured I could just reformat my 40gb drive and ghost the image from the 2gb drive and away I go, but my...

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