A drive boot problem

[ampal]

I recently did a complete reinstall on a new HD. After I got everything setup I realized. If I do a cold boot I get a "Invalid Boot Disk" on drive A. If I do a warm boot (ctrl alt del) it boots right into c drive no problem.

I tried disabling the A drive in the bootup sequence. Same results.

Thanks
Mike

 

[SYAR2003]

If you have an option like "disable floppy seak at boot"
in the bios ,use it.

 

[ampal]

I don't have that option, just a list of boot devices. I have the floppy disabled.

Mike

 

[wolluf]

How do you know the invalid boot disk message refers to A: drive? (this can happen because machine boots faster than the the hard drive - so its not ready when bios tries toload boot strap from its mbr). Is the hard drive ok?

 

[ampal]

The hard drive seems to work fine. The error I get tells me it trying to boot for A drive.

Mike