Hi all, I have a new machine P4 with 512 MB ram with win XP Pro. I recently bought DVD burner and installed it. When I started the computer I got the following message DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER After reading few mails regarding this subject on this forum what I understand is that I have to enable my DVD burner(I might be wrong). But I don't know how to do that. Can someone guide me in this regard? DVD burner's seems to have power supply because when I press the push button, the tray come out and goes in when I press again. The only problem is that I cann't see my windows working. any help regards /saleem

Re-check your Master/Slave plugging and make sure you have the cable connected correctly.

If jumpered properly, check in bios as to boot order to be certain hard drive didn't disappear. Rich M www.kickenhardware.net

Hi all again, thanks for reply. After changing Master/Slave plugging, I no more get the Disk boot failure and I can see that winxp is there. Now I have another problem. Before I installed DVD writer I already had a cd-writer on D:drive. Now the problem is that I still see one cd rom drive i.e. D:drive no matter if I put cd in CD-writer(the earlier one) or in DVD writer(recently installed). Even if I put cd in both drive I can only see the contents of only one cd. Why this is so?? Do I have still Master/Slave plugging problem? Any suggestion thanks regards /rsasalm

cdrom and cdrw or dvdrw also must be master abnd slave. look on the back you will see jumper config to master, slave and CS

hi there i recently had to buy a new motherboard as old one was bust. i connected hard drives and other gear to the new mobo but it would not go into windows. the xp logo would come on but quikly the machine would restart. i have a 200 gig which is master and split into 2 partition and a slave 120 gig. i delted the windows parition on the 200 gig and re installed windows. this was successful and i was able to get into windows. but when i restarted the machine...i get error say boot disk failure insert system boot disk. why is this? both hard drives work fine and are not dead PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP thanks