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Boot Disk Failure
Name: zindagi Date: March 14, 2007 at 06:43:52 Pacific OS: Vista Business CPU/Ram: AMD 3200+/ 1GB
Comment:
I get boot disk failure as I power on the computer on cold mode. However, after 2-3 minutes it loads fine. I had recently upgraded my hard drive (160 GB, 3 month old, older drive is set up as slave) and vista is 10 days old. It was working fine otherwise with XP. What could be the problems.
Name: clacker Date: March 14, 2007 at 09:22:49 Pacific
Reply:
Check that the drive is correctly identified by BIOS from the BIOS POST screens.
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Response Number 2
Name: jefro Date: March 15, 2007 at 19:29:07 Pacific
Reply:
Get the companies drive diagnostics and test the heck out of the drive. If s.m.a.r.t then enable it. Test it cold even if you have to put in front of a/c. Test it hot too.
It is possible that your boot sequence is out of whack. I would have thought that if boot disk fails the bios stops.
I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.
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