Hi I have just built a system with the above m/board. Now I cannot boot from hard-drive. Recgonises hard drive in bios etc.. but will not boot into it - just says: 'DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISC AND PRESS ENTER' - when ENTER is pressed... boots into windows. I have reinstalled Windows XP.. will boot with cd in but not without it... Running with 1Gb memory stick, am using onboard sound and graphics to eliminate any conflicts... HELP... please. Lucylocket
If your system will boot with the install CD in place, but not without it, it sounds to me like your hard disk partition is simply not set as active.
Boot DOS, from a CD or floppy. You can get a dos boot disk or CD image from bootdisk.com.
Once DOS is up, run FDISK. Set your Windows partiton as active. Then to reboot.
I think you'll be fine.
Posted on May 26, 2008
Hi You need to make sure that your boot sequence sets to boot from hard drive first. Also, make sure that the hard drive sequence has the hard drive enabled. If this does not work, then let me know so I can give another suggestion.
Posted on May 31, 2007
Hello again,
This means you will have to get your hard drive physically tested. It might be faulty and need to replace. Have you tried another hard drive in it to see if the PC recognizes it? If it does then the hard drive you are using currently might really be faulty.
It will only be verified with a hard drive test.
Thanks,
Lolita
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Hi thanks for the reply, i understand a little about computers as i have built them in the passed, but this time the hard drive will only boot from disk.
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