ide AND POWER CABLE REMOVED PC DOES NOT BOOT

[lostandfound+2]

Hi Guys(and Hello Forums),
I Have A Intel 915 Board With Just One Ide Cahannel.its Gives Connections To Both My Hdd And My Dvd Rw.now When I Remove The Ide And The Power Cable Of The Dvd Drive And Start The Pc It Dosent Boot(it Says To Set Boot Device Priority Or Insert Proper Bootable Media) .its Actually That My Hdd Dosent Get Detected. I Got This After Makin A Bootable Floppy And Entering C:\ It Says Invalid Drive Specification .
Please Help If U Can.
I Know I Am Doin Somethin Wrong.
Thanks For Readin.

[acal3000]

it seems you have been messing with starforce don't you?

[lostandfound+2]

no i actually havent used any sf soft like sf nightmare etc cause i am not that desperate to play SF games. i read how sometimes sf backfires and guys have lost their hdd's.i was just wondering hows it possible to happen. imagine someone who dosent have a optical drive.will his drive not work too.(i no thats a silly question but after looking at the inside of my pcfor 2 hours trying to figure things out thats the only question that pops in my head.)
any way any body can help me
thanks.

[DABhand]

Try this, check the jumpers for your harddrive..

Some makes have this stupid master/slave/CS set

Instead of being straight forward master or slave, they have single drive, Master with slave, etc... Really stupid :P


So make sure it isnt Master With Slave or similar, and just set it to Master/Single only

[lostandfound+2]

ya thanks for the reply but i checked the back of my drive see th master is connected to the dvd rom and the slave is connected to the hdd but i tried to interchange it and removed the dvd drive it still dosent boot.

[DABhand]

The harddrive should be master not the DVD-rom..

Once set to master, go into your bios and make sure it sees the harddrive and change the bootorder to boot from IDE-0 or HDD-0