bootup help

[refcol2002]

having installed xp pro after an upgrade to my computer i find i can only boot from cd, what have i done wrong have i connected a cable wrong or do i have to go into bios to change anything or have i installed wrongly even though windows actully runs after boot up.any help would be welcome as its a pain having to put my disk in first before boot up

[Statica]

Have you gone to BIOS and set your Hard drive (or IDE device) as the first boot device?

[refcol2002]

tried changing the bootup in bios to hard drive and not put disk in drive and the message i get is not system disk reboot from disk

[Tuf]

Did you install it on a partition that is not active?

[Cricket]

Hi refcol2002,

Is your hard drive recognized by the BIOS correctly?

Check your drive jumpers to make sure they're set properly for the type of IDE cable you're using. If you're using the older style 40 wire IDE cable, set the drive jumpers to master or slave. If you're using the newer 80 wire IDE cables, set the drive jumpers to CS (cable select).

Did you do a clean install of WinXP Pro or did you upgrade from a previous OS?

Cricket

[refcol2002]

Originally posted by Cricket Hi refcol2002, Is your hard drive recognized by the BIOS correctly? Check your drive jumpers to make sure they're set properly for the type of IDE cable you're using. If you're using the older style 40 wire IDE cable, set the drive jumpers to master or slave. If you're using the newer 80 wire IDE cables, set the drive jumpers to CS (cable select). Did you do a clean install of WinXP Pro or did you upgrade from a previous OS? Cricket

Hi, Cricket. I did a clean install but like i said not being a genius with computers i don't know wether i even cabled it up properly. you've hit a good point about the cables,i've just put in a jetway v333u motherboard with a 2000xp processor and used both old and new cables to set it up,the new that i got with my motherboard i've used with hard drive and floppy the old i,m using with my cd rom could that be the problem.