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September 27th, 2005, 11:50 AM
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| DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
A new motherboard arrived last night (a Foxconn 748K7AA) so I began to install Windows XP (with SP1a). This was on a 40GB IBM drive (yes, a Deathstar, but with the firmware fix applied) that previously had Windows 2000 on it. Also, this drive also had only 9GB partitioned (I was going to do something with the rest but I changed my mind).
The install went okay, once it was done I popped in my SP2 CD, and once that was done I visited Windows Update and got everything critical plus a few optional. Reboots in between everything as per normal. Only this error began after removing the Windows CD and starting the SP2 CD.
On that reboot, starting up again, I get a POST message:
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
and the only way I can get the system to boot is if I leave my Windows CD in the drive. I ignore the "Press any key to boot from CD....." message and Windows simply starts up. Otherwise I can't get past the error message.
For the record, I also have a pair of SCSI cards, an LSI 20860 and an LSI 8953U. I've tried booting to recovery console and doing fixboot+fixmbr but that didn't work. I can also try updating my IDE drivers, and as a last resort repair install or all-out reinstall, but I'm asking for any other suggestions. Maybe some BIOS or SCSI firmware setting...?
Last edited by sm8000 : September 27th, 2005 at 12:25 PM.
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September 27th, 2005, 07:37 PM
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what drive are you booting off of a scsi? or ide?
it sounds stupid but check to see if a floppy disk is iin your floppy drive.
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September 27th, 2005, 07:46 PM
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Make sure the BIOS's boot order has the HDD to boot first. Since the HDD contains your WinXP! 
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September 27th, 2005, 07:58 PM
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Booting off an IDE drive. Only my CD and DVD drives are SCSI. I've tried setting the HD as 1st but that didn't fix it. However I'll look a little more at the BIOS later (tonight, hopefully). | |
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September 28th, 2005, 12:17 AM
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Sounds like maybe your Boot.ini file is pointing to the wrong location. You should be able to view it via the recovery console.
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September 28th, 2005, 10:40 AM
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Thanks, I'll have a look at that. | |
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September 30th, 2005, 12:35 AM
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Problem solved! Turns out I had to go into my SCSI card's BIOS, and under "Boot Adapter List" I had to set "Next Boot" to Off. | |
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