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abright52
I have a computer that I believe was struck by lightning. I had to
replace the power supply and the motherboard. I backed up the old hard
drive and started fresh.
Formatted as NTFS, XP Home installation went fine, but when I went to
restart it, I got a Disk Boot Failure message. I replaced the hard
drive with a brand new WD 40GB Drive. Reinstalled XP Home and got the
same error after restarting. I booted into Partition Magic from a
Floppy Disk and formatted the drive from there, set it up for NTFS, set
it as the active partition and installed Windows XP again, this time
from a different XP CD, just in case the original disk was causing
problems. Still getting the same error.
I swapped out the RAM, no change. I have ran the system through a few
of my diagnostic tools and everything comes up as good. I booted into
the Recovery Console......chkdsk /r came up clean, then I ran fixboot
and fixmbr. Still no boot.
If I have a bootable CD in the drive (Windows CD, Diagnostics CD, etc),
it will boot into Windows, as it should, when I don't press any key to
boot to CD. I found that quite strange, as I have never seen anything
like that in 5 years of being a computer tech.
Any ideas?
replace the power supply and the motherboard. I backed up the old hard
drive and started fresh.
Formatted as NTFS, XP Home installation went fine, but when I went to
restart it, I got a Disk Boot Failure message. I replaced the hard
drive with a brand new WD 40GB Drive. Reinstalled XP Home and got the
same error after restarting. I booted into Partition Magic from a
Floppy Disk and formatted the drive from there, set it up for NTFS, set
it as the active partition and installed Windows XP again, this time
from a different XP CD, just in case the original disk was causing
problems. Still getting the same error.
I swapped out the RAM, no change. I have ran the system through a few
of my diagnostic tools and everything comes up as good. I booted into
the Recovery Console......chkdsk /r came up clean, then I ran fixboot
and fixmbr. Still no boot.
If I have a bootable CD in the drive (Windows CD, Diagnostics CD, etc),
it will boot into Windows, as it should, when I don't press any key to
boot to CD. I found that quite strange, as I have never seen anything
like that in 5 years of being a computer tech.
Any ideas?