Please help! Windows won't boot at all from new sata2 7200.10 drive :(

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**Thougt i'd post this here too as it could be a windows issue*** - someone please help!!

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?
 
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/

Test the hard drive first... Methinks they have a bootable CD/floppy disk that you can lauch seatools from.

When you installed Windows did you do a quick format or the normal format?
If you did a quick one do a long one... When I tried to install Windows on my WD 36GB Raptor I had the same problem. I zero'ed it with *** WD tools then a long format then it worked.
 
In the BIOS try changing the 7200.10 access mode (I think it's called that) from Auto to Large

It should be in the first menu options, where it lists the SATA & IDE drives, I had issues with a 7200.10 and almost the exact same problems you are seeing.
 
Thanks a lot guys!! god knows where i'd be without the ocuk faithfull.

I'll try both when I get home. I'l do a long format first in windows (booting from the maxtor) and if that doesn't work i'll try the bios option.

Actually I think I might do it the other way round - it'l be much quicker I guess.

Thanks again. Will let you know how I get on.

EDIT: In the spirit of learning a new thing everyday whats the difference between the quick and the long format?

Cheers
 
None of the above worked :(

I did a full format (took about an hour and thirty) and then set the access mode to large.

I installed xp and everything went fine as usual. Once the pc restarted though it got stuck at the boot from hd screen like it's been doing.

Anyone pls :(
 
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