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DISK BOOT ERROR all of a sudden
Name: Mosschops Date: September 21, 2003 at 03:02:20 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: Athlon 950/512Mb
Comment:
All of a sudden my PC wont boot into OS. It says boot from ATAPI cdrom then 'Disk boot error insert system disk'. I have a slave HDD also. All jumper settings are fine. Ive taken CDROM out of the boot order in the BIOS but it still seems to be trying to boot from CDROM instead of the master HDD. If i disconnect the slave drive it SOMETIMES boots but not always. Ive done chkdsk in recovery console and all seems OK. I guess its an MBR or BIOS problem??
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