A couple days ago I cloned a drive for someone using the EZgig software. Usually this goes without a hitch, but this particular drive I was cloning is quite old.

When I restarted with the new drive I received the typical bootable disk not found message, so I turned it off, messed with the BIOS, restarted and it came up fine.

That night I was working remotely on the computer and had to restart it. It didn't come back up; not a good sign. When the user came to the computer in the morning it was giving the same message.

I have found that to make the computer boot, all I have to do is go into the BIOS and "Load Defaults", then restart. It will boot and runs great.

Any thoughts on what is causing this situation? Is it MBR corruption? Are some settings being saved in the CMOS?

A couple points of mention:

• I have already attempted looking for a BIOS update for the computer, but the newest is already installed (from 2003).
• When the computer reboots it either shows "None" for Primary Master, or sometimes it will just not show anything.

Thanks, Tom