MBR not being written to during install of RT to a Desktop Computer.

Hello,
We have been trying on and off for months in order to get LabView RT to load
onto a desktop computer and have that computer boot up directly from the hard
drive we installed RT on. First we go through the HD format disk procedure, and
it doesn’t give any errors. When we reboot the computer after the install, we
can not boot from the hard drive. The hard drive still seems to have Grub (a
boot loader that was used previously on this hard drive to run Linux) since it
spits out Grub errors while trying to boot. I checked the boot sector of the
hard drive, and that seems to have some LabView content on there, and the
partition where the LVRT is seems to have the files that should be there as
well.
We formatted the hard drive using partition Magic, and set the disk up to have
one primary partition that was set to active, and formatted as FAT32. We did
not specify a drive letter for the partition while creating it since C:\ was
already being used on the computer where we were formatting the disk, and I
know that LVRT uses drive C:\ as well... so we didn't want any conflicts.
After all this… no errors during the install.. and still we
can not boot from the hard drive. Instead, we boot using the boot disk, which
seems to work fine, but we would really like to be able to boot from the hard
drive and take the floppy out of the computer that we are using.
Has anyone else encountered any problems like this before? I
have read some of the forum posts about people having the same type of issue,
but they were able to set the partition as Active and everything  worked out, but that was not the case for us.
Any help is greatly appreciated since calling NI support
doesn’t really seem to lead anywhere, and some of them seem like they don’t
know too much about hard drives (which is understandable, since this is a very
small portion of what they do)
Thanks
-Mark

Trey,
The drive that I have formatted was the IDE drive I was using previously for
the RTOS that was not booting up on its own, but was running when we used the
boot disk.
I ran the PC Eval before the format, and everything came back successful.
I deleted the partition, created a new one, and formatted
the disk again to FAT32 via Disk Management in Windows XP Pro (just to start
clean). After that I ran CHKDSK, and no errors were reported. I then booted
using the PC Eval disk, and this time I got this error:
WARNING: Flush from cache to disk Failed
I’m not sure why suddenly I have this error, since all I did
was reformat the disk. What should the partition setup as anyways… I have never
seen that mentioned anywhere. Is it supposed to be a logical or primary? Should
it be set to active?
I will try different combinations since somehow it was
working before, so there must be a way to get it formatted correctly. I’ll let
you know which one seems to work.

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