boot disk failure ??????????

[huskydo]

hi im sorry if this thread has been covered somewhere else but im at m
wits end.

i currently have

asus motherboard a7v8v-mx
2.4 chip
256 memory
14 gig harddrive (yes i know its small)
128 graphics

now everything worked fine before and now it dont

when booting the machine windows xp home dont boot on its own

i get boot disk failure insert system disk and press enter if i put th
xp disk in cdrom it boots fine ( hence me here now)

i have spent all day on this without much success

i know that its the harddrive, the bios shows it there and my boo
sequence is as it should in the bios, the drive is set to master as
believe it should be
i have even done a fresh install of xp and had the tower in bits an
put back together to check all i can think of cables and such

the xp is on one partion but just seems to be missing something??????

even when i installed xp when it comes to reboot itself in the setup i
dont boot properly

any ideas or help would be most help full th
alot.....................
i wait for your replys with HOPE :eek

 

[DL]

Visit the hd manu.web site and download their hd checking utility
Possible hd failure

 

[peterk]

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_rec.htm
you need to run fixboot to write the bootsector
you need to run fixmbr to write the master boot record
You need to run bootcfg /rebuild to create a new boot.ini file.

The website explains the "Recovery Console" of XP and how to access it.It
also has a list of commands.
peterk