I have a problem booting up my other PC, it's been happening quite often, sometimes it boots up but sometimes it just simply doesnt... it gets stuck with a message "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"
can anyone tell me what I should do to fix this problem?
i installed Windows Vista Ultimate on my C Drive. and then installed Xp SP2 on my D Drive, in that sequence. now when the window boots it doesn't show the booting options and directly boots into XP SP2. i can not boot into Vista now. is there anyway i can make OS choice menu available / boot into Vista.
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I have PartitionMagic 7.0, and used DriveMapper to change all references to C: to R:, but that didn't do it. How do I cut my system's dependence on the failing drive, before it fails altogether?
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Trying to fix my friends computer thought I would be done in an hour or so but I ran into a retarded problem when trying to boot from the windows cd. Here is some information I know off the top of my head. If you have any input please let me know, I'm trying to get this done before tonight since its Friday
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everytime i shut down my comp, when i turn it on again i get an error message that says 'insert boot disk' on the startup screen. i'm not sure what the exact message was, but it was something about boot disk i should have written it down anyway, i turned the comp off, and shook the CPU a bit and then tried again and it started. I did a virus scan and every things clear l. i don't know much about these things lol so doing the virus scan must sound a little silly.so then anyway, i had to turn the computer off again and then when i switched it on i got the same error message. i pushed the off button and then put it on again and it worked. how do i prevent getting the error?
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I can get into my desktop if I go through safe mode though
Everytime that i have such kind of problems above when i try to boot my PC it doesn't boot (Means there's nothing comes up on the Monitor with flashing green light, HDD just run for a while then stop, and there's some wierd noise comes out of my Speakers as well it's like chinese or sth, wierd huh?
With that happens if i just leave my PC for a couple of days and try to boot it again, it boots up but somehow it cannot go into the OS and when i try the Safe Mode, it just show me alot of lines and continous beeping.
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no display what so ever and system hangs. tried another monitor, same problem.cleaned some dust from my motherboard and ram while putting the card in.have i messed up the RAM or mainboard in the process??
I'm having this problem with windows xp pro fresh install onto sataHD. Pressed F6 and installed sata drivers for the mobo etc. Now i hastento add that i have tried this 3 times now, set up runs smoothly windowsinstalls however when i have finished windows will only boot up withthe CD in the CDROM. Been into Bios and changed boot sequence but stillif no CD it just gets to boot from cd in the boot up screen and stops,put the disk in and windows boots straight up and away we go.
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