Non-System Disk

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"Non-System disk or disk error. Replace and strike any key when ready". Has
any one encountered this problem and knows how to solve it? If you have,
Please help.

Ugly Trick
 
Ugly Trick said:
"Non-System disk or disk error. Replace and strike any key when ready".
Has
any one encountered this problem and knows how to solve it? If you have,
Please help.

Ugly Trick
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With desktops, this is often caused by having a floppy disk inserted at
boot. Eject the floppy.

Otherwise, some more information would be helpful.

HTH
-pk
 
"Non-System disk or disk error. Replace and strike any key when ready". Has
any one encountered this problem and knows how to solve it? If you have,
Please help.
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As others have stated: You try to start your computer from a non-system disk.

Years back it would always be a floppy-disk you have missed in the drive.
Nowadys you should also check if you have a CD/DVD in the drive, a usb-stick,
a camera or other usb-devices attached, which might have a boot partition.

Most USB-devices don't have a bootable partition (printers, scanners, ....
is no problem), but to solve the problem try to detach your usb-devices
one-by-one, to find the "guilty" device.

Good luck.
 
Ugly Trick said:
"Non-System disk or disk error. Replace and strike any key when ready". There is no floppy disk in the machine, no CD in the machine and nothing externally attached to the machine. Has any one encountered this problem and knows how to solve it? If you have, Please help.

Ugly Trick
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If there is no floppy or CD in the machine AND you've checked in the BIOS to
make sure the boot priority is correct (set the hard drive first), then
there is a good possibility your hard drive has died. Run a diagnostic
utility downloaded from the hard drive mftr.

Malke
 
I was in a hurry when I posted the question. I intended to include the fact
that there was no disk or no CD in the machine. I have corrected that.

Ugly Trick
 
I was in a hurry when I posted the question. I intended to include the fact
that there was no disk or no CD in the machine. I have corrected that.

Ugly Trick
 
I was in a hurry when I posted the question. I intended to include the fact
that there was no disk or no CD in the machine. I have corrected that.

Ugly Trick
 
I was in a hurry when I posted the question. I intended to include the fact
that there was no disk or no CD in the machine. I have corrected that.

Ugly Trick
 
As Malke says, your hard disk might have died or the file
system might be damaged. You can find out by booting the
machine with a WinXP boot diskette. Here is how to make
one:
- Format a floppy disk on some WinXP PC.
- Copy these files from the i386 folder of your WinXP installation
CD to A:\
ntldr
ntdetect.com
- Create a file a:\boot.ini with these lines inside:
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="1 Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect /noexecute=optin
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="2 Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect /noexecute=optin
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="3 Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect /noexecute=optin

Now tell your BIOS to use the floppy disk drive as its primary
boot device.

If you don't have a floppy disk drive then you can burn a boot CD
on a machine that does have one, using the above boot diskette as a
basis.
 
By the way, there is no need to post the same reply four times.
Once will do quite nicely. You could reply to yourself if you
don't want to reply to a specific respondent.
 
Thanks. That is a very good suggestion. I will try that as soon as I figue
out which keys to press at startup.

Ugly Trick
 
"Non-System disk or disk error. Replace and strike any key when ready". Has
any one encountered this problem and knows how to solve it? If you have,
Please help.
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Answered in another newsgroup. Please do not send the same message
separately to more than one newsgroup (called multiposting). Doing so
just fragments the thread, so someone who answers in one newsgroup
doesn't get to see answers from others in another newsgroup. And for
those who read all the newsgroups the message is multiposted to, they
see the message multiple times instead of once (they would see it only
once if you correctly crossposted instead). This wastes everyone's
time, and gets you poorer help than you should get.

If you must send the same message to more than one newsgroup, please
do so by crossposting (but only to a *few* related newsgroups).

Please see "Multiposting vs Crossposting" at
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
 
That is a very good suggestion. I will follow your instructions and see what
happens. Thanks very much.

Ugly Trick

Pegasus (MVP) said:
As Malke says, your hard disk might have died or the file
system might be damaged. You can find out by booting the
machine with a WinXP boot diskette. Here is how to make
one:
- Format a floppy disk on some WinXP PC.
- Copy these files from the i386 folder of your WinXP installation
CD to A:\
ntldr
ntdetect.com
- Create a file a:\boot.ini with these lines inside:
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="1 Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect /noexecute=optin
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="2 Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect /noexecute=optin
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="3 Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect /noexecute=optin

Now tell your BIOS to use the floppy disk drive as its primary
boot device.

If you don't have a floppy disk drive then you can burn a boot CD
on a machine that does have one, using the above boot diskette as a
basis.
Click to expand...
 
Ugly Trick said:
"Non-System disk or disk error. Replace and strike any key when ready".
Has
any one encountered this problem and knows how to solve it? If you have,
Please help.

Ugly Trick
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Others have said the commonly causes of non-system disk error. This is a
bios error message.

Less common, the mbr points at the first primary partition that is set as
active. The mbr may have incorrectly pointed as may be corrupted. The
partition may be corrupt. The filesystem itself may be damaged. The hard
disk areas that carry that data may be iffy for reading. As a result, the
bios cannot perform a handover to the operating system.
 
Lil' Dave said:
Others have said the commonly causes of non-system disk error. This is a
bios error message.

Less common, the mbr points at the first primary partition that is set as
active. The mbr may have incorrectly pointed as may be corrupted. The
partition may be corrupt. The filesystem itself may be damaged. The hard
disk areas that carry that data may be iffy for reading. As a result, the
bios cannot perform a handover to the operating system.
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Indeed, and booting the machine with a boot diskette/CD will immediately
confirm (or otherwise) your suspicion.
 
Thanks everybody for your replys. I have not solve the problem yet, but I
have a good idea of how to approach the solution.

Ugly Trick
 

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