Boot up problem

platypus

platypus

platypus

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Probably not entirely the right forum, but this is really doing my nut in now.

On my main PC at home, I have two internal hard drives, a Seagate 500GB disk and a Maxtor (I think) 1TB disk.

A long while back, whilst I was an intrepid explorer, new to the shores of Vista 64, I had a PC crash and reboot, whilst it was applying updates. I had to rescue the install using the dvd and repair it which it did just fine.

Ever since that fateful day, upon booting, and after posting the computer halts with "Error - Operating System not Found".

The only way around this is for me to hold F8 for the bootmenu, and select my primary hard disk (the Seagate), then Grub loads fine and I can select Vista/Ubuntu.

In the BIOS the Seagate is set as the primary disk, and the second hard disk has been removed from boot list. The order is Seagate>Dvd>USB.

This is a real pain, because it means I can't turn my pc on, go make a brew and come back ready to do whatever it is, but more importantly it means I can't reboot it remotely or use wake up on lan from work when I need to retrieve some stuff over my VPN.

I've tried everything I can think of and still no luck.
 
ok

no idea then.

do you have a usb drive connected at the same time? i get problems on some machines when a usb stick or my mp3 is plugged in..
 
Yeah I have three 1TB externals plugged into it. One is Ethernet, the others are USB. But I've tried booting with them unplugged and I get the same error.

I might flash the BIOS later.
 
if pressing F8 allows it to boot, it sounds like it isn't the primary boot device, try setting it to something else and changing it back..

also check the HD boot order too
 
Done all that :).

Also disconnected the maxtor & externals just incase a few times and tried booting with just the seagate in. No avail.
 
that is weird..
i'd be tempted to chuck the vista disc in and tell it to repair the boot. but i reckon that'd remove grub..

maybe ask in the linux forum?
 
bledd. said:
that is weird..
i'd be tempted to chuck the vista disc in and tell it to repair the boot. but i reckon that'd remove grub..

maybe ask in the linux forum?
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I've run the windows repair a few times in the vain hope that it would work the second time where it failed the first.

Good idea I'll ask those guys too.
 
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