Recently i had to change a motherboard, processor and memory out of a system. Since i did not have anything to can back-up the files on the hard drive i just put it to cable select and started the computer up. The hard drive is a Maxtor 40gb IDE drive.
When i started up the computer to check if it was coming up ok, it did so i just said to myself that ok its finished. The next day i turned it on it came up saying that Boot Failure please insert system disk cd rom or something like that. I restarted it and after 3 restarts it came up. During this time i noticed that i would show that the hard drive was not being detected just the cd drive and it was on that 3rd restart (no corny lines about 3rd times the charm please
) that it came up. So it seems to need a restart before it detects the hard drive.
So my question is, do i have to re-install the OS in order for it to work properly or do i just need to change the hard drive as well? :confused
Thanks in advance.
When i started up the computer to check if it was coming up ok, it did so i just said to myself that ok its finished. The next day i turned it on it came up saying that Boot Failure please insert system disk cd rom or something like that. I restarted it and after 3 restarts it came up. During this time i noticed that i would show that the hard drive was not being detected just the cd drive and it was on that 3rd restart (no corny lines about 3rd times the charm please
So my question is, do i have to re-install the OS in order for it to work properly or do i just need to change the hard drive as well? :confused
Thanks in advance.