Guest JCO Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 One of my computers gets this error when trying to boot: Non-System Disk, Press Any Key When I press any key, it boots up okay most of the time but sometimes it blue screens. The harddrive is in a removable tray. I've taken the HD out and put in another drive. I get the same issue, therefore, I don't think it's HD controller (I think?). What else would give this error? Also, this seem to happen on with IDE2 only. When I boot using IDE1.... no issues. Does this mean I have an issue with the motherboard's IDE2 Socket. Thanks.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 Re: Non-System Disk, Press Any Key "JCO" <someone@somewhere.com> wrote in message news:uHDF%23MkLJHA.1012@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > One of my computers gets this error when trying to boot: > Non-System Disk, Press Any Key > When I press any key, it boots up okay most of the time but sometimes it > blue screens. The harddrive is in a removable tray. I've taken the HD > out and put in another drive. I get the same issue, therefore, I don't > think it's HD controller (I think?). > > What else would give this error? > Also, this seem to happen on with IDE2 only. When I boot using IDE1.... > no issues. Does this mean I have an issue with the motherboard's IDE2 > Socket. > Thanks. Your removable tray might be marginal. Connect the disk directly to the controller and watch what happens.
Guest philo Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 Re: Non-System Disk, Press Any Key "JCO" <someone@somewhere.com> wrote in message news:uHDF%23MkLJHA.1012@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > One of my computers gets this error when trying to boot: > Non-System Disk, Press Any Key > When I press any key, it boots up okay most of the time but sometimes it > blue screens. The harddrive is in a removable tray. I've taken the HD out > and put in another drive. I get the same issue, therefore, I don't think > it's HD controller (I think?). > > What else would give this error? > Also, this seem to happen on with IDE2 only. When I boot using IDE1.... no > issues. Does this mean I have an issue with the motherboard's IDE2 Socket. > Thanks. > I also use removable drive kits and find that they fail from time to time, thought he problem could be in either the tray or the caddy... I find that if I swap around drives alot in a caddy, the 80wire ribbon cable is prone to damage,,, so try another tray first and if that does not help replace to caddy too.
Guest JCO Posted October 23, 2008 Posted October 23, 2008 Re: Non-System Disk, Press Any Key Okay I got rid of the this error by fixing the Master Boot Record. However, evertime I shut down, after windows saves all settings, I get a bluescreen (error stop code 00000050 I think). Page_Fault_in_Nonpaged_Area I guess I should top post this error since it appears to be different from the thread I started. Thanks anyway. "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message news:#mFtIZkLJHA.4452@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > > "JCO" <someone@somewhere.com> wrote in message > news:uHDF%23MkLJHA.1012@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> One of my computers gets this error when trying to boot: >> Non-System Disk, Press Any Key >> When I press any key, it boots up okay most of the time but sometimes it >> blue screens. The harddrive is in a removable tray. I've taken the HD > out >> and put in another drive. I get the same issue, therefore, I don't think >> it's HD controller (I think?). >> >> What else would give this error? >> Also, this seem to happen on with IDE2 only. When I boot using IDE1.... > no >> issues. Does this mean I have an issue with the motherboard's IDE2 > Socket. >> Thanks. >> > > > I also use removable drive kits and find that they fail from time to time, > > thought he problem could be in either the tray or the caddy... > > I find that if I swap around drives alot in a caddy, the 80wire ribbon > cable > is prone to damage,,, > so try another tray first and if that does not help > replace to caddy too. > >
Guest JCO Posted October 23, 2008 Posted October 23, 2008 Re: Non-System Disk, Press Any Key Removable trays are fine. I used a new cable and went straight to the harddrive. Same issue. I also tried a different harddrive that is also bootable to WindowsXP. Same issue. "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote in message news:uJgnfYkLJHA.1500@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > > "JCO" <someone@somewhere.com> wrote in message > news:uHDF%23MkLJHA.1012@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> One of my computers gets this error when trying to boot: >> Non-System Disk, Press Any Key >> When I press any key, it boots up okay most of the time but sometimes it >> blue screens. The harddrive is in a removable tray. I've taken the HD >> out and put in another drive. I get the same issue, therefore, I don't >> think it's HD controller (I think?). >> >> What else would give this error? >> Also, this seem to happen on with IDE2 only. When I boot using IDE1.... >> no issues. Does this mean I have an issue with the motherboard's IDE2 >> Socket. >> Thanks. > > Your removable tray might be marginal. Connect the disk directly to the > controller and watch what happens. >
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