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Disk boot failure
Name: bobby Date: March 11, 2001 at 10:00:12 Pacific
Comment:
Everytime I turn on the computer, I get "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter". Floppy is set up as the first boot device, hd1 second, and cd third. Why doesn't the system just boot up from the hd? I have to insert the win2k cd everytime to boot up, is there a way around this? Is it possible that the hd is damaged? Any help appreciated.
Name: Pierre Lemyre Date: March 11, 2001 at 10:04:40 Pacific
Reply:
Place HD Controller as first Boot device and see the result. Do you have ATA66 or ATA100? Then use Raid or Scsi controller as first Boot device.
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Response Number 2
Name: Daniel Su Date: March 11, 2001 at 15:27:39 Pacific
Reply:
boot from your installation CD, choose to repair from repair console, there are two command that you can use to fix your boot files or your mbr : fixboot or fixmbr
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Response Number 3
Name: bobby Date: March 11, 2001 at 19:33:09 Pacific
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Thanks for the replies...
I tried everything above but the computer still will not boot up without the windows 2000 cd. Anyone have any other suggestions?
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Response Number 4
Name: blah Date: March 11, 2001 at 19:45:24 Pacific
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I'd suspect the boot.ini file
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Response Number 5
Name: Jukkis Date: March 12, 2001 at 01:15:11 Pacific
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Tried hd0 as the second boot device? =)
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Response Number 6
Name: Char Aznable Date: March 12, 2001 at 06:37:57 Pacific
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Go to BIOS. If there is a line called Seek for bootup diskette, disable it. Don't know if that helps, but worth trying.
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Response Number 7
Name: bobby Date: March 14, 2001 at 17:55:07 Pacific
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Tried everything above and anything I could think of, but the dang thing still won't boot from the hard drive. I'm going nuts! Oh well, I guess I'll just play around with it for another 24 hours and see if I come up with anything. Keep the suggestions coming if anyone has any, it's much appreciated.
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