Boot Issues... Need help.

Willis240

Willis240

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I recently built the comp shown in my sig, but im having problems installing vista. when i put the vista disk in, it says "boot disk not found. please insert boot disk and press enter" when i put the disk in, i press enter, and there's no response. i then took the HD downstairs to my other comp. i replaced comuter #2's HD with my new blank one. i then proceeded to install vista successfully and i took the HD back upstairs to my recently built one. when i try to boot from the HD, it says "the memory needed to restore from hibernation has changed. to delete this data to continue, press enter" i pressed enter and got no response just like my first try. i don't know what to do. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thank you
 
The success seen with the drive on the older system left that hardware detection and boot information on the drive. You may have to use a drive partitioning tool included with the Vista installer or one like Partitioning Magic or GParted to firat see that removed.

Also see if the board in the new case has a boot device menu option seen at post along with the press DEL now to enter bios setup. That allows you to leave hard drive set as the first in the boot order and select the one time boot from a floppy, any hard drive installed, or an optical drive. Once the setup finished copying the setup files for Windows let it restart and see the hard drive itself become the default boot device.

The actual problem when seeing the no device found could be from a bad optical drive or if an ide model having the drive's jumper set wrong. If that is an ide type set it to master on the end of the ide cable or try another dvd drive to see if that will see results in case the first one has a defect.
 
I already tried setting the hd as the first boot device but it changed nothing.but thanks for the advice. Are u suggesting that I transfer the HD to the new computer before the step where windows 'checks the performance of your computer'?
 
You wouldn't move a drive while the installation is in progress on any system. The thought there was seeing Vista go right on when in the old case while seeing problems on a newer build also seeing new and newer hardwares.

A problem namely the optical drive used would explain the problems seeing the installer run correctly. If an ide type drive you may left the jumper at the factory default namely the cable select position when it needs to at the master for the end connector or slave for the middle. That will stall everything right there fast enough.
 
Ok, my optical drive is sata. Would a good solution be to replace the optical drive with another and see if that works?
 
If there's a problem with the drive itself tossing a known working one in to see if that suddenly sees Windows installed would be the idea to look into. If you received a bad drive when ordering for the new case that should raise flags trying that out.

Have you seen the drive listed on the post screen or did you simply leave the factory logo screen for Gigabyte untouched? The key on many boards to manually select the one sessdion boot device should list the drive there if it is being detected properly.

That would be the F8 or F12 keys pressed a few times right after the single post beep is heard to enter that rather then the bios setup. In the last 3 or 4 builds here I have build them with two not one single optical drive in the event one is found bad or goes doa as well as being able to leave a disk in one while using the other.

(gee? did i forget my sof II disk in the drive again? :P )
 
PC eye said:
The actual problem when seeing the no device found could be from a bad optical drive or if an ide model having the drive's jumper set wrong. If that is an ide type set it to master on the end of the ide cable or try another dvd drive to see if that will see results in case the first one has a defect.
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WOW i didn't know that!! i had this same problem and i thought either the optical or mobo was crappy so it could not load windows because of incompatibility. my mobo only has one channel for IDE so i had the HD in the middle of the cable and dvd at the end and after being frustrated for 3 days, i JUST went out to buy an SATA optical to remedy this and it works fine. shortly after reading this, i switched the order of the optical and HD and it works fine! thanks pceye but i should have read this soonerrrr.

Willis, if doing all that doesn't work, then i'm guessing different mobos have different bios and probably wont boot if you install vista on different machines. sorry, i don't really have any solutions...
 
The information seen in Willis240's sig shows that it will easily support Vista. When first setting up the drives for your case however you may have had the jumpers set incorrect or had the wrong hard drive set as default at the top of the list if having more then one. The boot info went on one while the other was set as boot. ouch!

The other thing besides a possible bad optical drive to consider could well be either a bad data cable(7pin) or power plug if you simply didn't forget to plug it in? You would then easily expect to see the "failure to find boot device" message appear. Make sure to double check everything just in case.
 
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