Guest djarvinen Posted October 22, 2008 Posted October 22, 2008 I have an odd boot problem. I can only connect two IDE devices to my PC, so I often physically swap my CD/ROM with my 2nd hard drive, depending upon which one I need. If I have the 2nd hard drive or the CD/ROM attatched, no problem. But if leave the 2nd IDE slot 'empty', I get an error on boot, something like 'NTOS kernel corrupted' (sorry, don't remember exactly; I will get exact message if necessary), and the PC will not boot to Windows. But if I plug in a 2nd device (even if it is the CD/ROM drive WITHOUT a CD in it), the system boots fine. How weird is that? PS This happened when I had Win2K installed as well as with my new WinXP Pro system.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted October 22, 2008 Posted October 22, 2008 Re: Odd boot problem; requires slave device "djarvinen" <djarvinen@gmail.com> wrote in message news:ce675d48-c706-48e1-bfd8-4ee83acefd76@40g2000prx.googlegroups.com... >I have an odd boot problem. > > I can only connect two IDE devices to my PC, so I often physically > swap my CD/ROM with my 2nd hard drive, depending upon which one I > need. > > If I have the 2nd hard drive or the CD/ROM attatched, no problem. > > But if leave the 2nd IDE slot 'empty', I get an error on boot, > something like 'NTOS kernel corrupted' (sorry, don't remember exactly; > I will get exact message if necessary), and the PC will not boot to > Windows. > > But if I plug in a 2nd device (even if it is the CD/ROM drive WITHOUT > a CD in it), the system boots fine. > > How weird is that? > > PS > This happened when I had Win2K installed as well as with my new WinXP > Pro system. This is probably a hardware, not a Windows question, hence a hardware newsgroup may be a better place to post it. Anyway, many hard disks have two jumper settings: One is labelled "Drive is single master", the other "Master with slave present". Your disk might be incorrectly jumpered.
Guest djarvinen Posted October 23, 2008 Posted October 23, 2008 Re: Odd boot problem; requires slave device On Oct 22, 11:30 am, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com.oz> wrote: > "djarvinen" <djarvi...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:ce675d48-c706-48e1-bfd8-4ee83acefd76@40g2000prx.googlegroups.com... > > > > > > >I have an odd boot problem. > > > I can only connect two IDE devices to my PC, so I often physically > > swap my CD/ROM with my 2nd hard drive, depending upon which one I > > need. > > > If I have the 2nd hard drive or the CD/ROM attatched, no problem. > > > But if leave the 2nd IDE slot 'empty', I get an error on boot, > > something like 'NTOS kernel corrupted' (sorry, don't remember exactly; > > I will get exact message if necessary), and the PC will not boot to > > Windows. > > > But if I plug in a 2nd device (even if it is the CD/ROM drive WITHOUT > > a CD in it), the system boots fine. > > > How weird is that? > > > PS > > This happened when I had Win2K installed as well as with my new WinXP > > Pro system. > > This is probably a hardware, not a Windows question, hence a hardware > newsgroup may be a better place to post it. Anyway, many hard disks have two > jumper settings: One is labelled "Drive is single master", the other "Master > with slave present". Your disk might be incorrectly jumpered. I think you have it. I seem to remember about 12 different combo settings on that hard drive, some which seemed quite bizarre. Thanks.
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