Boot Failure

[Simon Rogers]

Please can somebody shed some light onto my problem
i have just started to get this messege on my pc when i
turn it on, also when in the pc it will somtime freeze up
which i belive is the hard drive going missing in bios as
when i restart it comes up with this msg again.

Boot Failure
Insert Boot Diskette in A:
Press anykey to continue

I have looked into the bios and it seems it is not finding
my hard drive. i have a MSI 865pe neo2 motherboard and i
have had no problems with anyhting like this b4.

one minute it finds it ok next it takes many restarts to
find the harddrive and boot correctly.

my pc is running windows XP

Please can someone help me
many thanks
Simon

 

[WC]

When did the problem begin?

Could you have a defective data cable?

Is this drive SATA, IDE, SCSI?

Go to the hard disk drive manufacturer's web site,
download & run the diag utility. Your system will
probably need a floppy drive.

Put the drive in another system. Does the problem occur?

Install a controller card into a PCI slot. Does the
problem persist?

That should keep you busy for a day or so.

HTH

WC

 

[Alan]

hi simon
i had a similar problem and i disconnected -re connected
the hard drive cables and had no trouble since.
worth a try .hope it helps
Regards Alan

 

[Guest]

thanks alan will try and let you know
simon

-----Original Message-----
hi simon
i had a similar problem and i disconnected -re connected
the hard drive cables and had no trouble since.
worth a try .hope it helps
Regards Alan
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