Old PC - 20Gb disk - Controller Card

[ppenn]

I am trying to upgrade the hard drive on an old PC - I have fitted a controller card and a 20 Gb disk. The card recognises the hard drive on boot up but then I get the follow on screen "Disk boot failure. Insert system disk". I have amended the startup in bios, but whatever I do I cannot get it to boot to either a CD or a floppy. Am I missing something or doing something wrong. By the way the disk is set as JBOD.
Regards Peter

 

[KimberTech]

What mainboard/bios?

You may need a drive overlay....or it might not go at all without a bios upgrade if there is one.

Go to the manufacturer website of your hard disk and have a look ...as well as looking up the specs on your mainboard. Kimber

The more I learn,I realize how much more there is to know!

 

[Grunt2002]

Does the new 20 gb drive you installed contain the os ?
If not, check out if it is not recognized as primary master (boot device).
The message you get would be displayed when the bios tries to boot from a blank unformatted disk.

My question : what is JBOD ?

 

[rich110]

You said it is an old PC, does it have an old controller card in it or is the old controller an on-board? If there is an old controller card inside, you have to pulled it out first because you have a new controller (but some ATA adaptor can work with an old one, but in that case the bios will treat the new one as a SCSI device. I had one like that myself, and you will have to set the bios to boot from SCSI instead, of course with an OS properly set up in new HDD as mentioned by other guys). Please be a little more specific with the hardware in your computer.

 

[BuckeyeComputers]

Are you saying that the system will not boot with a floppy? or you just cannot access the harddrive if you boot to a floppy?

 

[ppenn]

JBOD stands for "Just a Bunch of Disks" I didn't know what it meant but found the meaning a web site.
The system will not boot to a floppy even though I set the bios accordingly