DISK BOOT FAILURE problems

[Alan Robinson]

Can anyone help as I'm mystified!!
I have 3 HD's in my Intel based XP system with the boot drive installed in a
caddy. (I have a spare caddy with another drive for a backup and I use Ghost
to copy the drive image to the spare drive when I backup)

I removed the graphics card (ATI Radeon9600) a few weeks ago to troubleshoot
my son's PC and when I replaced it my system failed to see the IDE 1 and 2
drives. Rebooted, drives appeared and then boot "Disk Boot Failure, insert
system disk and press enter".

I tried:
Updating the mother board BIOS
CHKDSK found errors on C: and D: drives
Eventually installed Windows XP SP2
Running CHKDSK found and fixed errors on C: and D: drives
Ran FIXBOOT and FIXMBR etc
Did an XP install/repair

Eventually did a fresh Windows installation on the spare drive and found it
still produced the same error message.

After a lot of messing around, I found that disconnecting the D: drive and
pressing enter when the "insert system disk" message appeared (with no CD in
the drive), everything booted up OK.
If I re-connect the drive, I can't boot.
The "Ultimate Boot disk" reckons the D: drive is fine and I can read the
data on it.

Sorry to be so long winded but has anyone any ideas??

 

[Jon_Hildrum]

Check bios and see what drive it is set to boot from. It appears that the
boot order might have changed (or drive letters)