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1. Disk Boot Failure fun!! Help wanted. Love offered.

   

   Topic by Michael Knubben · Sep 2006 · Home› General Discussion

   So, i have a new computer, on which i installed windows, multiple times now, because every time it gives me an error, quite often only after having it boot into win xp succesfully twice. The error goes a little something like this: DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER. Funny to see the shouty bastard could…

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   Reply by Michael Knubben · Sep 2006 · Home› General Discussion

   -No floppy disk inserted, or even a drive for one to be inserted... in. -I'll try the HD checking tools, but i take it these only run under windows? See my dilemma. -My bootsequence is set up properly, and even if i still had cdromdrive set before HD, it'd ignore it if it was empty. -I don't have a RAID setup, and i have…

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   Reply by Michael Knubben · Sep 2006 · Home› General Discussion

   Backing up is hardly the issue, since it's a new pc, but i'll give all of the stuff you two've listed a go. cheers!

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   Reply by Downsizer · Sep 2006 · Home› General Discussion

   Comp Engineer here. Either windows boot files corrupted, the MBR corrupted, bad drive sectors, partition info corrupted, or total physical failure. If you have SMART on the bios enabled, it would read you back an error if it were physical. Most commin is smart error: 05. Either way, your best option is to load that sucker…

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   Reply by Peris · Sep 2006 · Home› General Discussion

   how about getting a cheap 60GB IDE drive or something to use for windows, thus following my advice after all... /runs

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   Reply by PfhorRunner · Sep 2006 · Home› General Discussion

   Well... I had this the other day, and I had to do an entire system restore back about 5 days. which sucked, because now itunes won't work until I go through and dig out all the quicktime files, and reinstall those... but yeah... could be a number of things. Also, is it a SATA HDD? because i've had several issues that sound…

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   Reply by Psyk0 · Sep 2006 · Home› General Discussion

   [ QUOTE ] dont you have a floppy disk inserted ? [/ QUOTE ] Floppy? those things dont exist anymore, do they? :P Check boot sequence / loose cables Last resort: use only IDE drives to boot from on the primary IDE channel. Use SATA drives as storage / RAID drives.

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   Reply by ebagg · Sep 2006 · Home› General Discussion

   I've gotten that error when the hard drive isn't working. Usually if I open up the case and make sure all the power plugs and IDE ribbons are secure that usually solves it. Nothin like the ol "jiggle the cable" fix!

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   Reply by kat · Sep 2006 · Home› General Discussion

   Could be any number of things.. one thing you need to do is get to the HDD manufacturers web site and download their drive checking tools to do a proper 'factory check' on the drive to make sure it's physically ok before going further.

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    Reply by Joao Sapiro · Sep 2006 · Home› General Discussion

    dont you have a floppy disk inserted ?