[NBLUG/talk] Can't boot from Hard Drive

[Mike Rice]

try unplugging any external devices, USB especially, then boot.
--- Dave Sisley <dsisley at sonic.net> wrote:

> Hey:
> 
> I have a Dell Dimension 2350 that had what looked like a Hard Drive 
> failure.  I put in a different (used) drive and installed FC4 on
> that.  
> When I try to boot, the machine acts as though there is no hard drive
> 
> installed.  Poking around the bios boot options, I don't see the
> drive.  
> The drive is jumpered to be a master with slave present (CD).
> 
> What's funny is that booting from knoppix or from the FC4 install
> disk - 
> meaning booting from CD - works fine.  What's more, the CD-based OS
> can 
> see the hard drive.  Knoppix saw it, and FC4 obviously saw & wrote to
> 
> it.  That means the disk is okay, and that there's nothing wrong with
> 
> the data cable or something...
> 
> Any ideas?  Thanks so much!
> 
> -dave.
> 
> -- 
> Dave Sisley
> dsisley at sonic.net
> roth-sisley.net
> 
> 
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