Can't boot to SCSI drive

martie · Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 201

I have installed Windows XP professional on SCSI drive. Windows correctly recognized it, formatted it like NTFS and installation has finished without error. But when I tried to boot my system I got an error saying that boot sector cant be found. How can I solve this problem because I do not have an IDE drive to install another XP.

davide · Joined: 06 Jan 2007 Posts: 180

This behavior can be caused by lot of things. Have you checked boot sequence in BIOS settings? SCSI has to be designated as one of the options to boot from. Next, do you have some additional drivers for your SCSI device? If you have them you load them before Windows installation (when you boot from Windows installation CD you are asked to press F6 if you have any additional SCSI/RAID drivers). Also, check your SCSI controller. Some of them need to be set to send Init13 string if boot partitions are larger then 8GB.

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