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Name: secret6666
Date: November 23, 2005 at 10:05:36 Pacific
OS: Windows XP Professional E
CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon 64bit 3200+ 1G
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Seem to be having a problem booting Windows.

The other day, I started my PC up as normal, and all of a sudden I was given an error message ''DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER'' and will not work, unless I put a bootable floppy in, which I downloaded from www.bootdisk.com - I insert the floppy and press enter, and windows loads fine!

I have done chkdsk /r in windows recovery console, and changed the boot order round to all different positions. Still no look.

I have a serial ATA western digital hard disk, with a K8N-Neo2FIR MSI board.
The drive is detected fine in the BIOS, it just looks like for some reason windows has tried to find a boot.ini on the hard disk, and not found it for some reason. I have also tried doing fixmbr in the recovery console, still no good.

It has happened before a few times, a while back - I just formatted the disk and installed windows again, but its just getting a bit rediculous now!

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Sam



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Response Number 1
Name: wanderer
Date: November 23, 2005 at 11:32:22 Pacific
Reply:

go into recovery console and run the utilities fixmbr and fixboot. if this doesn't solve the issue then do a repair install [NOT a reinstall].

This can be a sign your drive's track0 is failing to retain the information written there. Could be drive replacement time.

Golly gee wilerkers everyone. Learn to Internet Search


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Response Number 2
Name: secret6666
Date: November 23, 2005 at 14:42:05 Pacific
Reply:

Fix boot doesn't work, fixmbr does - but does not work. How do I do a repair install in it?

SS


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Response Number 3
Name: street1
Date: November 23, 2005 at 16:44:46 Pacific
Reply:

http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/30593.html


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Response Number 4
Name: Jimi_l
Date: November 23, 2005 at 17:32:52 Pacific
Reply:

It won't help, the drive is hosed.

Run the WD diag tools available online and confirm it.

Jimi_l


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Response Number 5
Name: secret6666
Date: November 24, 2005 at 09:30:13 Pacific
Reply:

Just ran the Western Digital diagnostic tools, ran fine, but found bad sector errors which were sucessfully repaired, however, still says teh same error message... ''DISK BOOT FAILURE.... etc'' :-(

Any idea's?

Thanks.


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Response Number 6
Name: street1
Date: November 26, 2005 at 20:35:54 Pacific
Reply:

You get boot disk error when your hard drive isn't plugged in tight.Check connection at motherboard and at hard drive.Have you looked inside your computer lately?


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Response Number 7
Name: secret6666
Date: November 27, 2005 at 03:52:03 Pacific
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Yes but it still works when I put the floppy in and boot off that, if it was slightly disconnected - it wouldn't work at all would it? and I have triple checked the connection, and changed the SATA port.

Any idea's?

SS


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Response Number 8
Name: street1
Date: November 27, 2005 at 11:46:05 Pacific
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jimi_1 seems to be right in response 4,if you don't have a bad connector cable from mother board to hard drive.


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Response Number 9
Name: djr777
Date: December 21, 2005 at 20:34:29 Pacific
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i`m having the same problem and my drive is also a western but only 1 year old.i`m trying to install windows xp again. istarted a thread here
"computer locked me out by djr777 at broadband forum in the secrity section:


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