i am experiencing & have searched the web about this problem — “Searching for Boot Record from IDE-0…OK”
i have tried replacing the CMOS battery.
i tried reseating my IDE & power cables.. tryied another IDE cable.
i tried ‘Load Default settings’
i still get the same message. “Searching for Boot Record from IDE-0…OK”
i might try using a new IDE cable &
trying CHKDSK, Fixboot &/or Fixmbr (or Fdisk /MBR) after posting here.
but i’d like to get your opinion first…
i tried this ‘problem hard disk’, using the same IDE cable, in another PC —- before AND after trying it in the ‘problem PC’….. it worked normally, the other PC boots ok..
is it safe to say that the problem lies in the ‘problem PC’?
perhaps, the BIOS chip or the motherboard is broken/dead?
any suggestions/advice?
details:
OS – windows XP
Asrock K7 upgrade 600 motherboard
AMD sempron 2400+ 1667MHz
this ‘problem PC’ is 5-6years. old
thank you very much.
First off, Microsoft doesn’t want you to use the same copy of Windows on multple PCs.
Second, the hardware on PCa is different than PCb, causing the boot failure for lack of correct drivers.
If you do get a hard drive to boot after migrating it from one PC to another it is most likely because the core components are very similar. Don’t confuse booting to a hard drive with installing a second hard drive and booting.
There is something called 28 bit LBA compliance and also 48 bit LBA compliance.
Hard drives have gotten progressively larger capacity since the first PC version. The two most recent standards for capacity involve the afore mentioned compliance.
28 bit LBA compliant BIOSes can properly configure hard drives up to 137GB in capacity. 48-bit addressing the limit is 144 petabytes (144,000,000 gigabytes).
Both the BIOS and the operating system must be 48 bit LBA compliant. WinXP original was only 28 bit LBA compliant.
Finally, hard drive manufacturers advertise capacity using the formula that 1000 kb = 1 MB. In actuality the formula is 1024kb = 1MB. This results in a shortfall in actual capacity. The rule of thumb is to multiply the stated capacity (120GB) by .93 to get the approximate usable capacity.
Assuming you configure the 120GB correctly it should work fine for you and show as about 111GB. Look at the link below for more on 48 bit LBA.
http://www.48bitlba.com/index.htm
So, even if your computer and version of Windows is not 48 bit LBA compliant, you should be OK with a 120GB hard drive.