I would get the proper cable anyway for the new hd as that is just one more
thing to cause a glitch. Aside from that, did you install grub or lilo as
your boot manager? When you answer that, we can take it from there.
Smitty
On Monday 11 August 2003 20:57, William Coulter wrote:
> I know that this is not a full linux question but I have to ask it. If you
> would, please respond to me personally at wrcoulter30@yahoo.com.
>
> Here is my question or problem. I have rebuild my PC. It was a intel
> p3-500. It is now a athlon xp1600. Now when I put the dvd drive, cd-rw,
> hard drive, etc, in the new PC, the PC can't find the hard drive.
>
> I want you know that I have been doing this for a long time. So, I have
> done all of the basics, checking the cables, power cords, BIOS, etc.
>
> Now when I have done this with win 98 or me, I have had no problems. The
> system boots up and the system says, hey I am in a new pc, what changes
> have you made to me? But this time I am using a win 2000 dual booting with
> red hat linux 8.0. Here is the kicker. When I put the knoppix cd in the
> PC it runs without any problems. In fact, it finds the win2k along with
> the rh 8.0 partitions. What do I have to do to make the PC boot with the
> hard drive. The error I get is "no bootable dirve. boot failure." I have
> even used the win2k boot disks and use the repair option. I know that the
> new mother board can acccess the hard drive as ata100 and the old mother
> board was ata66 or 33. The only other thing, is that I am using the wrong
> cable, but I have never seen a hard drive ack this way before from that.
>
> William
>
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