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Hack&Lube · 03-14-2011, 03:55 AM

Unplug all devices (CD, floppy, etc.) except your primary harddrive. Set the primary harddrive to be the 1st boot device so it doesn't mistakenly try to boot from an optical drive (barring a major bios problem, would only happen in this case if your cables and jumpers were seriously messed up on old IDE devices). Inside your bios, try to auto-detect the ST3500630630AS drive. It may be configured wrong. You need to go into the configuration for that drive to show us anything that might be useful.

I had issues with a netbook before where the system refused to boot from the primary harddrive or even refused to boot from USB drives and would constantly keep going to the CD-ROM despite the boot order I set. I had to do a bios flash to correct the problem.

03-14-2011, 03:55 AM	#2
Hack&Lube Atomic Nerd Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Calgary Exp:	Unplug all devices (CD, floppy, etc.) except your primary harddrive. Set the primary harddrive to be the 1st boot device so it doesn't mistakenly try to boot from an optical drive (barring a major bios problem, would only happen in this case if your cables and jumpers were seriously messed up on old IDE devices). Inside your bios, try to auto-detect the ST3500630630AS drive. It may be configured wrong. You need to go into the configuration for that drive to show us anything that might be useful. I had issues with a netbook before where the system refused to boot from the primary harddrive or even refused to boot from USB drives and would constantly keep going to the CD-ROM despite the boot order I set. I had to do a bios flash to correct the problem. Last edited by Hack&Lube; 03-14-2011 at 04:05 AM.