Boot issue

Should the boot order show SCSI rather than HDD. Remembering that SATA drives are third party devices. Sorry to go over old ground.. but have you tried booting from a bootable floppy. Can you get to a command line? If so, can you access the hard drive from there. If you can, it's a windows startup problem. If not then it must be a driver/BIOS setup problem or the drive itself isn't commicating with the system. I have a couple of spare drives for this. Normally I'd just switch them over, see if it works. If you have the luxury of a second SATA drive, then this is a good test. If that works, then it has to be a faulty drive otherwise if it doesn't then it's the BIOS.
 
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