Pc not booting into windows

[Emart1028]

I built a pc with some old parts lying around, Mobo: idk its out of a dell vostro 200, Cpu: Intel Core 2 Duo, Ram: 2gb, Gpu: GT 730, Hdd: two 150 gb with windows pre installed on them, I get past the load screen and it detects my hard drives in sata 0 and 1 but it says there is no boot device, even though i already picked one, any help would be nice.

[Emart1028]

15 minutes ago, Emart1028 said:

I built a pc with some old parts lying around, Mobo: idk its out of a dell vostro 200, Cpu: Intel Core 2 Duo, Ram: 2gb, Gpu: GT 730, Hdd: two 150 gb with windows pre installed on them, I get past the load screen and it detects my hard drives in sata 0 and 1 but it says there is no boot device, even though i already picked one, any help would be nice.

Vostro slim i mean

[laxhippe]

Can you change your SATA mode from IDE to AHCI? This would be located in the BIOS

[laxhippe]

Also, it would be worth pulling out the disk that does not have the OS on it. Just to take away one extra possibility.

[Emart1028]

Just now, laxhippe said:

Can you change your SATA mode from IDE to AHCI? This would be located in the BIOS

Im not sure, the only options i saw were IDE and Raid

 

[laxhippe]

16 minutes ago, Emart1028 said:

Im not sure, the only options i saw were IDE and Raid

 

Bummer. Well, I would make sure you unplug all drives from the mobo (even cd/dvd) except the HDD with the OS on it. If you are sure the HDD is in good shape, try adjusting the boot settings (secure boot, enable fast boot, etc.) You can alwasy restore default settings.  It is hard to know how the BIOS should be set up without knowing what options you have. If all else fails. I have had luck with updating the BIOS.

 

I wish I could help more. I will do some digging online and see if I can see anything.

 

Good luck!

[Emart1028]

21 hours ago, laxhippe said:

Bummer. Well, I would make sure you unplug all drives from the mobo (even cd/dvd) except the HDD with the OS on it. If you are sure the HDD is in good shape, try adjusting the boot settings (secure boot, enable fast boot, etc.) You can alwasy restore default settings.  It is hard to know how the BIOS should be set up without knowing what options you have. If all else fails. I have had luck with updating the BIOS.

 

I wish I could help more. I will do some digging online and see if I can see anything.

 

Good luck!

Thanks, i got it to boot into Xp using your one hdd method, but do you also know how to wipe the hdd and have windows reinstall itself?

[laxhippe]

3 hours ago, Emart1028 said:

Thanks, i got it to boot into Xp using your one hdd method, but do you also know how to wipe the hdd and have windows reinstall itself?

Right on! It has been a while since I have had to use XP. So went to Dell and found this

 

http://www.dell.com/support/Article/us/en/19/SLN130628/EN

 

Hopefully this is what you are looking for.