Computer Problem
Earlier today I replace my secondary hard drive with my daughter’s secondary hard drive from her dead computer in an attempt to salvage her personal data on it, leaving my primary HD in place.
Nothing happened. My computer refused to boot up.
All I got was:
Verifying DMI Pool Data
Boot from CD:
Boot from CD:
Error loading OS
So I removed her HD and replaced my own and got exactly the same. Oooops! What’s gone wrong?
Hitting L Ctrl – L Alt and Delete and pressing F12 I eventually arrived at the Boot Menu with three choices:
Floppy
+ Hard Drive
CD Rom
Choosing Hard Drive I was presented with a menu listing the two hard drives in situ:
CH0 M :
CH0 S :
Choosing CH0 M: the computer booted up with everything on it working as it should and access to the secondary Hard Drive.
A System Restore didn’t cure the problem and System Mechanic didn’t find anything wrong. Overall Health and Security are at the highest level. All my various anti-nasties do not report any problems. In fact to all intents and purpose there is nothing wrong with my computer except that it won’t boot up unless I go through the above routine.
My BIOS boot sequence is Floppy – CD – HD as it has been for ages.
My computer will boot up on the Lynux CD and other bootable CD’s OK and also from a floppy, it just doesn’t want to know the HD unless I go through the above routine.
Any ideas?
I run Windows XP upgraded from ME.
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