lease help! Windows won't boot from my 7200.10!

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Please help! Windows won't boot from my 7200.10!

Hey guys,

I just installed windows xp on my brand new 7200.10 320gb harddrive. Installation goes perfectly fine but when the pc restarts the system doesn't seem to be able to boot from the hdd. The cursor keeps blinkin on the boot from hdd screen and occasionally I get a "disk boot failure please insert installation disc" error.

I also have a diamondmax10 and I installed windows on that and booted from it fine. I booted from the max10 with the seagate installed and was able to transfer files accross both drives.

However once i remove the maxtor and try again to boot from the seagate nothing happens :(

I've tried swapping the cables round and i know it's not the cables. I've also tried different sata ports and know it's not either as the maxtor works on all of them.

I've got a dfi SLI-DR if that helps and my drive didn't come with any jumper pins so i'm assuming it's running in sata2 mode.

Any ideas or is it RMA time?

Thanks
 
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Sounds like either the boot priority list in the system BIOS does not include the new HDD or Windows has decided (as it does from time to time) to spread the boot files around like wild oats....

Have you tried installing Windows on the Seagate with no other HDDs installed?
 
I have. I have both hdds in my case. I removed the sata cable and the power connector from the maxtor so it's definitely off.

Windows still won't boot from the seagate :(

What bothers me is it works fine with the maxtor. I set the boot priority to HDD then CDrom.

One thing i did notice was at the top of the "boot from hdd" screen, it shows the seagate as ATA 133. Is that right?

Oh and if it helps the jumper on the hdd isn't on (so it's in sata2 mode). The drive didn't actually come with one :mad:

Thanks.
 
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