Storage Solutions HDD not letting run Bootable CD/DVD

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HailStonE

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I have a Seagate 250GB IDE HDD (Model No. ST3250820A). Now I want to install WinXP on it... The problem is when I connect this HDD then the bootable CD's do not work. On removing the HDD they work normally....

I've tried this on 3 computers but same problem every time... The HDD was connected to Primary Master with correct Jumper setting on it....

I also tried after removing the Jumper & with all possible combination of connecting it on different IDE channels with & without jumper.... Every time the bootable Discs refuses to boot but on disconnecting the HDD it boots fine...
I've tried WinXP Bootable, Acronis Bootable, & Hiren's Boot CD... Nothing works if the HDD is connected.... :S :S
 
Have you set the cd/dvd rom as the first booting device and the hdd as the second boot device in your bios?
 
prabs said:
Have you set the cd/dvd rom as the first booting device and the hdd as the second boot device in your bios?
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Lolz... I think when I say all combination then I guess it means I had tried every possible combination including this....

I need new ideas...
 
rocky_pratik said:
It seems you HDD has bad sectors..

If you dont have any data on it than just try low level format..

:D
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No bad sectors there... I had checked it with Ontrack Easy Recovery HDD Tools... The HDD was used as a data dump & now I tried using it for my download rig but it did not let any bootable CD run... :@

The data is intact there. I connected it as slave & it has everything... The HDD is also being detected in every computer...

I am pretty confused after trying all this... :S
 
Load ubuntu/any linux/osx and run

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1M count=10

Note: replace /hda with the appropriate device. Check using the mount/fdisk command

This should wipe the first 10MB and clear out your MBR/bootsector/partition table
 
Connect the HDD to some other PC, use sata dvd rom to start installation, once first stage finishes ( blue one ), connect it back to other system.
 
^.. This is the only option that I will be trying today... But it will be slightly different.. I tried it on my A8V Deluxe which has 2 SATA controllers of which second one supports IDE also but WinXP did not read the HDD.. Apparently there was no native support by WinXP for the second SATA controller. It asked for a Floppy driver...

On my second PC with A8V-VM SE the SATA controller is natively supported & I am hoping a SATA Writer works without any interference from the IDE HDD & it boots the WinXP CD...

Will be getting my friends SATA Writer or else will buy one myself...

@ Nitant... I restored MBR using Acronis from a WinXP Image but it did not boot...
 
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