The fact that once F12 has been pressed you are then able to select "C"
drive and the PC then boots OK means that all you have to is press F2 at the
next time of booting and then enter into the set up pages of the bios. In
there will an option to select the boot sequence ie., boot from CD 1st or
LAN etc.
Rearrange these boot options until you get the hard disc 0 as the first
option or even 2nd option if you have a floppy drive as the 1st option. This
is normally done by moving the cursor around on screen by using the arrow
keys until you are on the boot options and then pressing either the Page
Down / UP buttons or the Space Bar, the list will re-arrange itself. Keep
pressing the buttons until you have either a floppy drive as the 1st device
and hard disc 0 as the 2nd or hard disc 0 as the 1st device. Then save this
and reboot. Somewhere on the screen it will tell what button (key) to press
to "Save and Exit". Pressing this key will save the changes you have made
and will then reboot the PC and everything should then be working 100%.
Graham
On 30/10/06, Bob Whitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I cannot Boot-up Windows XP pro(with SP2) automatically
> from on my Dell Dimension 2350 .
> I am using 250GB IDE Western Digital HD(WD2500) drive.
> The only way I run Windows XP
> is to press F12 for "Boot Menu"
> Then select "Hard-Disk drive C"
> Then the system will start Windows XP.
> Windows XP works great!!!
>
> When power-up or re-boot
> I get the following message:
> "NO BOOT DEVICE DETECTED,
> INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS F1 TO CONTINUE
> OR PRESS F2 TO SETUP MENU"
> How do make Windows XP start automatically?
> How do I fix the above problem?
>
> Thank You
> Bob Whitman
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <xboomerx%40yahoo.com>
> PS: I have latest BIOS (A02).
> BIOS Phoenix - Awards BIOS V6.00PG
> Dell Dimension 2350
> 250GB IDE Western Digital HD(WD2500)
> WDC WD2500JB-00EVAO
> My BIOS has a 137GB partition limit.
> Then I ran my Windows XP pro with SP2 install CD disk.
> I setup two 120GB partitions on my drive.
>
>
>
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