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  1. goaliehammy

    why cant I boot from any hard drive?

    I have the 20 gig drive in the machine just now. I tried a wd 80gig from my mates comp and it would not boot it either, and I no for sure that the three drives work. When I installed both the 2 & the 20 gig drives into my mates machine one at a time they both boot up and I was easily able to set...
  2. goaliehammy

    why cant I boot from any hard drive?

    No I am not touching the keypad, and I have the cdrom set third in the boot sequence. I set up the 2 gig hard drive on another machine using the same routine and as you say it gave me the option on re-start of booting from the cd if I pressed any key and from the hard drive if I did not. this...
  3. goaliehammy

    why cant I boot from any hard drive?

    Thanks Martin I did not expect a successful boot from all the hard drives, I expected the computer to boot from the original hard drive which was configured for this machine. and was working until I tried to slave the seagate 2 gig hard drive. when this was unsuccessful I removed the 2 gig and...
  4. goaliehammy

    why cant I boot from any hard drive?

    Hi I cannot get my computer (p3 700mhz)to boot from my hard drives a wd 20gig and a seagate 2 gig. I have tried the hard drives in another machine and they are working ok. I also tried installing another hard drive from a working machine which it also wouldnt boot from, I have also installed my...

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