re: Disk boot failure, Insert system disk and press enter
Friday, May 9, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ari
(1218 messages posted)
The system is not finding the boot sector on the hard drive. So trying to fix your
Windows installation is probably a waste of time...it's not even getting to Windows.
I would (in this order) try setting the BIOS to factory default (which would hopefully
wipe out any BIOS corruption...even though removing the battery should have done
that) and, if that doesn't work, try a different hard drive. (Clearly, the machine
can SEE the hard drive, because it loaded Windows onto it...but perhaps track 0 is
bad.)
On Friday, May 9, 2008 at 1:19 pm, Eric Tang wrote:
>I'm getting a error on startup that says "Disk boot failure, Insert system disk
and
>press enter"
>
>If my Windows XP CD is in the drive then I don't get that error and it boots into
>windows, or if I inserted it after and press enter everything's ok. But the computer
>can't go into windows just booting from the hard disk.
>
>This is happening on my comp's hard drive and a brand new western digital 160GB
hard
>drive I just bought and installed XP to so I'm thinking its a hardware problem.
>
>I've gone into bios and made sure that boot order goes 1. hard disk, 2. hard disk
>3. cd rom.
>
>I've also booted into repair mode and tried fixmbr, fixboot c, bootcfg /scan, bootcfg
>/rebuild on my first hd. I've tried resetting the CMOS battery, unplugging the power,
>removing and repluggint the IDE. All with No luck.
>
>I've checked to make sure that the jumper on the western digital is set to master
>(which means no jumper on it)
>
>Anyone know anything else I can try that might fix the problem?
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