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You are here: Experts > Computing/Technology > Focus on PC Support > PC hardware--CPU & Motherboard & RAM > AM37 and ST3160815A Hard Drive
Expert: Rider
Date: 1/25/2008
Subject: AM37 and ST3160815A Hard Drive
Question
I have installed a Seagate PATA 160GB HardDrive on my Compaq 6435CL. Everything appears to be working fine as a Slave drive but when I make it the Master (by itself), load Win XP Pro, it gives me a BOOT DISK FAILURE - NON-SYSTEM DISK error when it reboots the first time during XPs installation.
Am I missing something here? This doesn't appear to be rocket science. Interestingly, when it is set as a Slave, Win XP on the old drive sees it as an Active Primary partition (that is, containing a Master Boot Record).
Any thoughts on how to get it set up?
Thanks for your any input you might have.
Regards,
Todd
Answer
You need to set the partition for the new drive and XP installtion to 'Active'. You can do this with the XP cd or with a bootable DOS Drive/Floppy Disk with Fdisk on it.
There is a tutorial on my web site:
http://www.diy-computer-repair.com/hd-format.html
http://www.diy-computer-repair.com/boot-devices.html
HTH
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