Disk Boot Failure

sirmixalot42691

sirmixalot42691

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Hey everyone. I upgraded my computer a couple weeks ago and ever since then I would sometimes get a random reboot and then a black screen that says "Disk Boot Failure, Please insert system disk". I googled it but couldnt find anything that worked for me. Do you guys have anything else that could fix this?
 
When you upgraded your system what was updated? will be the first question to ask here. If you swapped board out for a new one you will to see the correct drivers are installed for the board itself such as ide and SATA cotrollers, SMbus, memory controllers and the onboard features(sound, video) if used. A simple without of video cards would only require removing the current drivers and installing the correct ones for that. With a board swapout the fast method for seeing this corrected if no hardware problems(drive, supply, board, cpu, hard drive, etc.) are the cause is to perform a repair install of XP. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Upon seeing that message you could also be looking at a corrupted or damaged boot sector on the hard drive. Tools like "Fixboot" and "Fixmbr" can end up also requiring a repair install when creating a new master record. These are the main things that will see that message come up preventing Windows from loading.
 
I had this problem for a while as well. Took me forever to figure out what the problem was. If your problem is the same as mine, all I did was download the HDD diagnostic tool from Western Digital (get one from whatever HDD company you use) and ran it. It detected that my OS wasn't set up to be compatible with a HDD greater than 160GB and automatically changed it and rebooted. Haven't had a problem since.
 
The_Architect said:
I had this problem for a while as well. Took me forever to figure out what the problem was. If your problem is the same as mine, all I did was download the HDD diagnostic tool from Western Digital (get one from whatever HDD company you use) and ran it. It detected that my OS wasn't set up to be compatible with a HDD greater than 160GB and automatically changed it and rebooted. Haven't had a problem since.
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You probably ran the Lifeguard diagnostics tool there to enable the UDMA. What happened on an older model board here lately was seeing the same "disk failure" message where the drive wasn't the problem but required a repair install to see Windows load normally after the memory timings were lowered. The bios Eprom chips were saying 'see ya!".
 
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