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Hard disk boot up failure

By jrnighthawk5 on Jan 29, 2009

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i have the asus p28 and i had 2 cd readers and i took one out and it was the slave and its sayin that the hard drive is not booting up properly

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Posted by knotbeerdan on Jan 29, 2009

You can try to get into bios and check your boot order

http://www.whitecanyon.com/how-to-change-boot-order.php

Posted by bunnydawg on Jan 29, 2009

is the other one plugged into the very end of the ide cable... and have you got the hard drive and the cd rom on the same cable ?

Robert

Solution #1

posted on Jan 30, 2009

joey64

Rank: Wiz
Rating: 81%, 251 votes

check if your first boot device is the hard disk if not then
configure your bios setting by replacing 1st boot device to hard disk

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