- Joined
- Jun 2, 2003
- Location
- Davis, CA
I slip stream XP Pro SP2 to install on my raptor drive, but kept my old OS on the Maxtor drive. Last night, I changed the drive letter for my Raptor OS partition to C and formated my old OS install on the Maxtor drive. This made the system unbootable. I figured I screwed myself, being the Raptor install wasn't that old to begin with, and all important files protected, I just went ahead and reinstalled the OS on my Raptor partition. The install was successful, or so I thought...
When I removed the install CD and set the BIOS to boot on the Raptor drive, the system was unable to boot. I mean as if there is not Windows install on the Raptor at all, it says system boot failure, please insert system disk. So I put the install disk back in, let it get through the "press any key to boot off CD to continue", after which I'm able to boot into windows.
I tried running the system repair, I've tried doing fresh install, nothing! No difference, I still need the install CD to boot on my Raptor. I'm starting to think it's a hardware problem. At this point I'm completely lost. What else can I try? Is this a hardware problem, or is it simply a software install problem?
Thanks.
When I removed the install CD and set the BIOS to boot on the Raptor drive, the system was unable to boot. I mean as if there is not Windows install on the Raptor at all, it says system boot failure, please insert system disk. So I put the install disk back in, let it get through the "press any key to boot off CD to continue", after which I'm able to boot into windows.
I tried running the system repair, I've tried doing fresh install, nothing! No difference, I still need the install CD to boot on my Raptor. I'm starting to think it's a hardware problem. At this point I'm completely lost. What else can I try? Is this a hardware problem, or is it simply a software install problem?
Thanks.