OS wont boot

My old hard drive would not boot windows XP. (Diskette 0 seek failure) I put it as a slave on my new computer and it works just fine. I formatted the hard drive, and then installed linux ubuntu on it. I then put it back in my old computer and it still wont boot, same error message. I can see the hard drive in the bios. Any ideas?

 

bump?

 

Diskette 0 would seem to signify it is looking for a floppy. Two things to check 1) that you did not leave a floppy in the A: drive. 2) Enter BIOS/setup utility usually F2 or DEL immediately at boot and check the Boot Order. It should be set to CDROM first and then HD*.

* You would set it to Floppy, CDROM then HD if you use floppies from time to time. For troubleshooting take floppy out of the order or move it to last place.

 

it is definitely the hard drive. I don't have a floppy or a cd rom drive installed

 

I still think it is probably related to BIOS looking for a floppy.

In Bios do you have something like "Drives"? Look for where it lists your HD as master and CDROM as master. Can you disable Floppy anywhere [not just in Boot Order but as an installed device--something like switch it from [AUTO} to [OFF]].

 

wow, I was a fool for thinking it wasn't the floppy drive. The "diskette 0 seek failure" no longer shows but i still get "strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility".
I was talking to a friend and he said that the boot partition on my hard drive could be corrupted. Is this possible even after a fresh install of an OS?

 

Did you set the jumper back to master?

You will have to install the OS on the computer you want to boot from do you have an XP installation disk or will the Linux install CD see the drive on the old computer?

 

Hi ADX,

It's possoble that the pin for the switch that senses that a disk is in the Floppy drive is broken off. That would make it think that a disk was in the drive always and would probably give that message. Unplug the cables from the Floppy Drive and things should go back to normal. You will need another Floppy drive if you use it.

Good Luck, Jim