Boot Failure: Select Proper Boot Device Or Insert Boot Media?
Nov 11, 2006
I am unable to boot my PC most of the times.Whenever I switch on my PC,I see the following message nine ot of ten times. DiskError/Boot Faliure Reboot and select proper boot device or insert Boot media in selected boot device If I press enter after this messages & keep pressing following messages appear from time to time (Not simultaneously). If just after making the switch on, I press F2 key to check the boot device preference
If just after making the switch on , I press f11 key to reach the boot menu I always find the 1.44 MB Floppy option highlighted as the booting choice.(though there had not been any floppy in the floppy drive, I dont have any really)I make the hard disk option highlighted & it solves the problem only a few times. But next time when I try F11 key to check the boot menu again I find 1.44 MB floppy highlighted.
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Dec 17, 2007
I haven't installed anything new on my computer but today after having my computer shipped to me via UPS I cut on my computer and where the XP load bar screen was I got: "reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device".Seeing this I knew I went into the BIOS setup and tried to turn the system priority to look at the HDD. Instead I only had the option of the DVD drive and the CD drive.I have no idea how to solve this problem and don't have any of the recovery CD's. I DO NOT WANT TO REFORMAT because like a bad little boy I did not backup my 4 years worth of work.
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Apr 22, 2010
How can I Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media wnidows xp without cd.It is possible.
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Jun 10, 2007
first i get the HP blue screen. I tried F1, but i dont see my hard drive in the boot menu. I followed some steps in Hp's web site- took the cpu apart and unplugged both hard drives from the motherboard, plugged them back in. when i restarted ,i got the HP screen and then windows started to load up. After a few seconds the HP screen came back up and then the black screen: sk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter. I also noticed that pressing F10 for system recovery does nothing.
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Jan 11, 2007
I just changed cases for my computer and now when I start it you hear 1 beep (i have AMI BIOS) It then goes to what looks like a command and then the message Reboot or select appropriate boot device or insert boot media pops up. I have checked all my connections and tried it every which way. I have went inside and out of the BIOS and still no luck. I have also tried reinstalling Windows XP, but it says restart the computer and when I do it doesn't continue the installer. Instead it says reboot or select appropriate boot device or insert boot. I also get the error of Overclocking Error.I have a 2.79 Pentium 4 HyperThreading processor, ASUS P4S800D-X, ATI X800XL AGP, Tech-link 425w PSU, 3 sticks Kingston 512mb 333mhz PC3200 RAM, Samsung Spinpoint 120GB ATA hard drive, LG DVD-RW-DL burner, and a standard floppy.
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Jun 15, 2010
When I try to boot Windows XP it says "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" What do I do?
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Sep 9, 2009
i have ONE hard drive with partitions. I had a really bad setup first, I had 1 partition with 3 windows installs on it, folders like WINDOWS, WINPRO, WINN, I never took the time to delete them or whatever, and I was using winpro as my main OS. When I was running the above setup, when I boot up it would ask me: Select what OS to load Windows Pro, Windows Home, Windows Home
I decieded to install Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, worked flawlessy, but I wanted to go back to windows xp pro 64 bit. So I made a new partition and installed windows XP pro 64 bit onto it. when I tried installing windows xp with my CD, the first part would work fine, but then when it restarted to continue the setup, it would load my MOBO logo and then after, it would just show a blinking underscore "_" on the top left corner, and nothing else.
I managed to install a fresh windows xp from my USB flash drive, but when booting up normally it still does not let me select what OS to log on to, it just shows the blinking underscore in the top left after the MOBO logo passes, I actually have to boot by USB drive to boot this fresh install of windows. I think something is wrong with my boot loader, but have no idea how to fix it.
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Getting error message when trying to change out a 10 gig to a 250.NVIDIA Boot Agent 201.0462 PXE-E61: Media Test Failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting NVIDIA Boot Agent DISK BOOT FAILUR, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" this drive I am upgrading also has Windows XP OS. I have another drive on the computer that has 160g.
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I have a dwsktop vaio When I boot from cold it does not find hard drive. I get an error message Disk boot failure Insert system disk and press enter. If I restart the computer and go into the bios it does not show the hard drive but when I come out of the bios it then boots up.It will only bootup if I go into the bios first?
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Jun 23, 2009
What can I possibly do to solve this problem? I have Windows XP and everywhere.
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a while ago my computer failed to boot repeatedly and I took it to the repair man who got it going but when I first switch it on I get the message invalide boot.ini file - booting from c and what has happened to create this problem and can I restore my PC to boot from the original file
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my computer just started having boot problems. I had not used it in a while because it was a backup. My primary has been totally taken over by a spyware program so I need to use the backup and now it won't boot up. All I get is the PXE_E53 no filename received message.
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Aug 9, 2005
i am getting a Boot Failure message on my computer when I start it up. It seems like it is trying to boot from the various devices, Then I receive the Boot Failure message.
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Apr 21, 2008
When booting up to Windows XP disc, i get an error screen that reads: Unmountable_Boot_Volume The problem is that the error screen appears before I can even get to the Windows Setup Welcome screen. So I can't even perform a recovery console procedure. I don't need the files on my hard drive anymore, I just need the computer working.
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Is there anyway to see the BIOS boot order (1st CD, 2nd Floppy, 3rd HDD) through windows XP (possibly a registry key or something)? I ask because I need to make sure all of the computers in my department are set to HDD first and not CD incase they have a non-bootable CD in the drive and a power outage (or Windows Update) causes a reboot.don't want to goto every computer, and would like to do this all remotely.
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My dad sent my daughter a "E Machine" with XP Home. Before he sent it, he transferred all of his personal files. When I hooked it up, the screen said "Boot disk failure. Insert system disk and hit enter". The company sent us a new set of bootable CDs as we thought the problem might be in the CD.
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May 15, 2006
My pc was running fine when it just started beeping like a warning klaxon. Rebooting didn't help, but rebooting into safe mode then normal mode did. Then 1 hour later while running spysweeper, I stopped the scan early because it was taking too long. It detected 1 adware and 1 trojan, but the log said the trojan (ruin) could not be quarantined and some threat was still in memory, despite a problem free pc except for the beeping which I thot was resolved. After exiting spysweeper
my pc locked up and could not be turned off manually, so I unplugged the cord in back. Then I got a blue screen after it tried rebooting. The bootup started normally, but then a blue screen read as follows, more or less-If this is the first time you are seeing this message reboot your pc. Otherwise check for viruses, remove any new hard drives or hard drive controllers. or refer to your startup manual. I can't even boot in safe mode.
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Aug 31, 2005
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Ever since a power failure yesterday, my computer is not booting 100% of the way - it seems to stall at the end after loading desktop etc, can't see anything missing but I am unable to do anything. Nothing opens when clicked on. It works perfectly in Safe Mode with Networking.
I checked Device Manager and found 3 things highlighted:
HID Non-user input Data Filter
HID Non-user input Data Filter in HID section, and
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every time I load up my PC (Win XP Pro, Mozilla Firefox) I get the following error box:
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Program: c:progra~1intern~1iexplore.exe
File: .lists.cpp
Line: 480
Expression:!(p==bodykwref.end())
For information on how your program can cause an assertion failure, see the Visual C++ documentation on asserts [note--I've tried this--it's all programmer speak and I'm just a novice trying to get rid of the error!]
(Press retry to debug the application-JIT must be enabled) [This works--for 10 minutes or so]
Abort Button Retry Button Ignore Button. I assume it's got something to do with iexplore, so I've reinstalled a couple times--no joy.
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Aug 6, 2005
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Hey guys, as u gather my nakme is stresseoutsandy for a reason, i recently bought a diy kit ocmputer and builllt it up then when i turn it on it says boot disk failure: mplease insert system disk and press enter,when in do so it loads then goes back to the same screen.could this be because the xp disc is a copy ? or is my computer broken?
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Installed XP on a Maxtor Diamondmax 10 200GB SATA 150 (F6 and drivers from floppy) ive it as 1st boot device, but it gives me a boot failure error after POST my drive's are as follows
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Primary IDE Slave - Maxtor 120GB
Secondary IDE Master - NEC DVD Writer
Secondary IDE Slave - Sony CD ROM
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Oct 8, 2005
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When I tried to boot it up it stalls just before loading up Windows XP Media Center. I have tried to boot from an external back-up drive, a memory stick with a bootable DOS program called "Spinrite" as well as from the system recovery DVD but it stalls at the same point. I made the appropriate changes to the boot order in the BIOS but that does not seem to results
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