Just an FYI - might help someone sometime - CF28

Well here was a new one, never seen this before.

I'm rebuilding the OS on my CF-28 MK3, has been dual boot for a while, decided to put it back to Windows for the whole partition so I go through a complete install from scratch, reformat etc.

Well I install Windows XP and it seems to work fine as long as I have the Windows Disk in the drive, it even reboots and as long as I don't do the "hit any key to boot from disk" bit, it boots up into windows.

So next I remove the disk and reboot and it can't find an OS. So I thinks to myself, maybe I haven't got the Caddy jacked in properly (although how I thought I could have installed it with that problem I don't know). So I rejacks the caddy and reboots - still no dice.

To cut a long story short, after faffing around with this for a couple of days, I decide to look in the BIOS setup and low and behold in the boot order, it doesn't list the hard drive at all - in the system summary it know it has a hard drive, reports the size correctly etc but as far as the boot sequence is concerned, HDD is nowhere to be found.

In the end I had to reset the BIOS to factory default and back it comes.

I've not seen this happen in BIOS in 15+ years of messing with PCs but there is a first for everything.

So major reason for this post is just in case it saves someone else from 2 days of head scratching, if you have the won't boot from HDD problem it may just be the BIOS has got a bit demented.

Cheers
Andy