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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thatdarncat" data-source="post: 1204573" data-attributes="member: 57">I'm having problems with my computer. A little background:I've got a Dell Dimension P3. The motherboard has an intel 815 chipset. I'm running with 5 drives:PCI Adaptec SCSI card: 8GB QuantumIDE1: 20GB and 120GB Maxtors (Master/Slave)IDE2: CDRW and DVD (Master/Slave)I've been getting a clicking noise as well as occasional hangs from (I think) my SCSI drive, however it came back clean from the SCSImax diagnostic. Since I've aquired a new full tower case, I decided to switch over. I stripped down the old case and started installing components in the new case. Initially I only installed the SCSI drive and the CDRW drive so I could install XP.Booting from a windows 98SE boot disk, I can detect the SCSI drive in FDisk, partition and format it. Booting from a Windows XP cd OR a Windows 98SE cd, I get an error message that reads:"Invalid boot disk. Please insert a new boot disk into a:"I've removed the SCSI drive and tried my 20GB IDE drive. The bios detects the drive fine, but Fdisk does not detect the drive. I get the same error message when I boot from CD.I'm going to steal Seri's second hard drive back and try that drive. I'm reluctant to try anything with my 120GB drive as that has all my backups on it. Any suggestions?</blockquote>