Urgent! I can't boot my system

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The last thing i do was burning a CD with Nero Express, then i shut down my
computer as usual, but the next day when i tried to turn it back on, it
display a message in DOS screen "Boot from CD: Disk Boot Failure, insert
system disk and press Enter"

What cause this problem?
 
Look in the BIOS to see that the CD is not the primary Boot drive. And
hope the Hard-drive didn't go to computer heaven.
 
The Bios setting is fine, the primary boot drive is set to hard-drive, but as
you said, i really worry that my Hard-drive might really gone to the compute
heaven.
 
Does the bios recognize there is a hard drive in the bios?

If so, have you tried chkdsk from the XP install CD using the repair
console?
 
The bios doesn't detect any primary ide or secondary ide drive,but i got 2
physical hard-drive, and they are connected to the motherboard correctly. I
didn't touch my computer hardware since my last maintainance few weeks ago.
 
FKK said:
The bios doesn't detect any primary ide or secondary ide drive,but i
got 2 physical hard-drive, and they are connected to the motherboard
correctly. I didn't touch my computer hardware since my last
maintainance few weeks ago.
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If the BIOS doesn't detect any drives, then the motherboard has probably
failed. Some troubleshooting steps to try, doing one thing at a time
and testing after each change:

1. With the computer off and unplugged, open the case and reseat all the
ribbon cables and power supply connectors going from the motherboard to
the drives.

2. Swap out the ribbon cable for a known working one.

3. Swap out the power supply for a known-working one.

4. If that doesn't help, connect only one hard drive to the
motherboard's IDE0. Have all other hard drives and optical drives
disconnected.

5. If the drive is still not seen, connect the single drive to IDE1.

6. If the drive is still not seen, connect a different, known-working
drive to IDE0. If not seen, repeat on IDE1.

7. If the test drive from #6 is not seen on either IDE connector, your
motherboard has died. The original hard drive may still be good. You
can test it by putting it in another, known-working computer.

If you are at all uncomfortable working inside your case and/or don't
have spare parts/computers for swapping, take the machine to a
professional computer repair shop (not your local version of
BigStoreUSA).

Malke
 
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