disk boot failure

[Guest]

I ran diskeeper 2007 on my ystem yesterday. Everything was fine till this
morning when I discovered the sytem was locked. I had to close the system
down by using the on /off button. On restarting I get the error "Disk boot
failure, insert system disk and restart" I have run setup to reinstall and
repair the existing windows installation but it doesn't recognise a windows
installation on any of my drives! However if I go into the repair console it
tells me i have a windows directory on d drive. Could it be the the MBR is
faulty. I ran fixmbr and it came up with "the computer appears to have a
non-standard or invalid master boot record" It also says to run FIXMBR may
damage my partition tables!! Anyone got any ideas
Help Please

 

[John John]

Make sure that you have no floppy disks or cd in these drives. You can
try booting from an Emergency Floppy Boot disk and see what happens:

http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/ntboot/

John

 

[AJR]

The error "Disk boot failure, insert system disk and restart" indicates the
system cannot locate the boot files. Often due to a change in the boot.ini
file.
Usually a "repair" corrects the problem - I may repeat info of which you are
aware - that is there are two repair options when booting from the XP CD.
The first is to repair via the recovery console - the second is presented
after you proceed with setup (At the welcome screen) - you are notified that
setup has found a Windows installation and offers the option of repairing or
reinstalling - select repair and setup/repair will proceed. If the Windows
installation is not found - big trouble.
Regarding the notice about "FIXMBR" - the warning is generic - I would
consider it an option if the repair above is unsuccessful