Meg 180 won't boot from HDD

Repair install of Windows XP appeared to work perfectly, but after install and removal of XP install disk PC wouldn't boot. Noticed initially that IDE drive detect took approxiamtely 90 seconds. Tried a repair of boot sector and MBR, no help. Notice during MBR repair that drive was showing as HDD 2? Attempted boot device order in all possible combintations, (CD, HDD0, HDD1, HDD2, etc,) no help.Moved drive to another computer, boots normally.
Attached HDD to IDE CD-ROM channel in Mega. Drive detect occurrs instantly and computer boots normally. I'd try swapping cables, but that requires more surgery than I feel comfortable with, considering the warranty. Anyone else seen this problem?
Any or all suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

It turns out the Mega 180 primary HDD channel doesn't like Western Digital drives configured with the jumper in the Master position. As Wonkanoby pointed out, the Western Digital drives are defaulted to Master with no jumper. No other controller has appeared to care yet, but obviously the Mega primary channel does. Thanks for all of the tips and especially to Wonkanoby who provided the info that cured the problem. The Mega is up and running now and happily playing DVD's.

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All all...
I am in deep deep trouble... My mega 180 won't boot, it won't display bios, I tried the reset jumper, unplug the pc, didn't work...
It runs ok with the hi-fi mode. I was using an add on AGP card, but now I unpluged it and trying to use the onboard card. Still nothing is displayed, I want to do a BIOS recovery, but mega 180 doesn't have floppy drive, what can I do? please help.#
Many Thx
Kevin

Was your system working and it stopped ? If so what did you last change ?
Or are you setting it up for the first time and it won't boot ?
What brand of memory and which CPU ?
As Ortrofox says... remove everything you've added. Graphics card, tv tuner, sound card. Then follow the reset to factory defaults in the manual.
Does anything happen at all when you try to boot ? Fan spins ? screen clears ? keyboard lights blink ? beeps ? Is the lan light on in the back ? If you have an optical mouse is the mouse light on ?
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Model Number: PSCMLA-03F07Q
Serial Number: XE343127P
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A couple of times a reinstall of the operating system seemed to correct the problem but then it would go again, now the problem is consistent.
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Toshiba used to be a byword for quality in the computer world but this is definately no longer the case due to poor (cheap) new quality control practices. Also it seems that Toshiba is no longer really concerned with making computers, they're more interested in selling Windows and GE Insurance Policies disguised as extended warrantees.
From now on I will definately be making sure that my customers understand the troubles they can have when buying Toshiba Laptops.
As for running Linux, I'm including this so that it will help other poor unfortunates who thought they were buying a computer instead of just a Windows platform.
The problem started with Microsoft, their proprietry MBR boot system was no longer valid in a modern world and they had to adopt the open source GPT partitioning system with UEFI boot, but in typical Microsoft fashion they couldn't stick to the widely accepted standard conventions for how the EFI boot partition should be laid out. And Toshiba is Microsoft's new "friend with benefits" so instead of sending Microsoft back to the drawing board they've rewritten their bios so that it looks for the Microsoft Win8.1 EFI boot partition and ignores all others.
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Here's a link with full instructions including pictures, it's written for Ubuntu but is easily adapted to almost any other operating system.
http://linuxontoshiba.blogspot.de/2014/05/getting-ubuntu-1404-to-boot-from.html?showComment=1410953307121
Hope that helps a few people before it gets deleted.
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Andrew.

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I had the same sort of issue with my eMac and pulling the battery cleared it up. That was many months ago and one of these days I might get around to buying a replacement battery... or not.
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Allan Jones wrote:
I maintatined three Wallstreets for a friend for years. They stayed in regular service from new until he replaced them with MacBook Pros last summer!
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