I have a system with 4 harddisks (all SATA) in them. When I plug in a 5th harddisk and boot the system up. It returns the error asking me to insert a bootable disk. The 5th harddisk has no executables and only data. It was reformatted too, so no .sys either.
But when I take out the 5th harddisk, it boots up XP as per normal.
I thought BIOS was supposed to detect automagically where the OS was on which HD and just boot it up from there. Why should adding another harddisk have this effect?
System Specs:
Asus p5k WIFI
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
2x2gb RAM
ATI Saphhire HD4850
OS: Windows XP
But when I take out the 5th harddisk, it boots up XP as per normal.
I thought BIOS was supposed to detect automagically where the OS was on which HD and just boot it up from there. Why should adding another harddisk have this effect?
System Specs:
Asus p5k WIFI
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
2x2gb RAM
ATI Saphhire HD4850
OS: Windows XP