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Can you tell me why my machine has this boot up problem?
I am running a Pentium Dual-Core 2.66 ghz with a Biostar board. Windows XP Pro with all updates installed. When I boot up the only way the machine will boot to the windows screen is if I select the boot menu and click on the hard drive, even though it is the only hard drive on the machine. I tried cloning this drive to a new drive, thinking the old one had issues and the new drive won't boot at all, even from the boot menu. Someone suggested a clean install of Windows. Is this a good idea and how do I do it?
2 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Go into your CMOS settings and set your hard drive as the primary boot device.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Depending on the cloning software, cloning a drive doesn't always make it bootable. (Some cloning software clones the logical drive but not the physical drive - and you need things from the physical drive to boot. If you cloned drive C, you're missing the master boot record, which isn't on a drive letter.) If setting the C drive as the boot drive doesn't fix it, you may have to reinstall Windows.
