Fresh install of XP on new system wont boot without XP cd?

[aaronwrx]

Hello,

This problem has been driving me nutz!

This is a new system im building from the ground up (like most of my systems) It consists of:

- New 120gig HD, new motherboard (latest bios), etc...
- In the primary IDE bus I have my Hardrive as a master.
- In the secondary IDE bus I have my CDrom as a master.

In my bios I have boot ide0 first, then floppy, then cdrom. I booted of f my XP pro CD, and it installed fine. The only problem is that I can't boot into XP unless I have the freaking CD in the drive... this is what happens at boot:
A: floppy search,,, no bootloader
C: harddrive search,,, no bootloader
D: cdrom search,,, finds a bootloader.. then loads the OS off my hard drive.

Ive booted into console recovery mode, and tried fixboot, fixmbr, etc..
I've tried every possible cable/jumper/bus combo. Nothing. :mad:

My HD is formart like this:
Primary partition 1, NTFS approx. 20gigs.
Primary partition 2, NTFS apprix. 100gigs.

:confused:
Any help would be great!

[Budfred]

Have you tried running the Repair feature from the WinXP CD... Check here (http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm) for more info....

[aaronwrx]

I had the jumper on my HD set to "Master with slave present"

There was no slave present. Removed the jumper, and its fixed!

[Whyzman]

"Master with slave present"

I haven't heard of that one as a jumper option...

Thanks for posting the solution! :)

[OmegaAvenger]

I always thought that was on old hdds

I.E.: i have an old W.D. Caviar 3200 (i think thats the model #, made in 96 i think) with that option.