System boot failure, enter system disk on press enter???

Master Mind

Master Mind

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System boot failure, enter system disk on press enter - this is what my system is tell me when i boot it up. now the comp is brand new, there hard drive has nothing, on it, im trying to install OS on to it. i have gone into the Bios and changed it so that the CDROM is the first boot drive, but it still does not want to work. i put the disk in and press enter and the same message comes up after like 5 seconds. can anyone help me??

thanks
 
Have you tried another OS CD? For example, download another bootable CD such as a Linux Live CD just to make sure that it's not the Windows CD you're using that's at fault. Does it even access the CD and give you the Windows installation screen when you press enter?
 
nope, when i put the cd in and press enter, it goes to a new screen and says, Boot from CD: then after like 10 seconds it says the same error, System boot failure, enter system disk on press enter. so iam really confused. and i have tried a different OS, still nothing, its as if the cd doesnt pick up the cd, but the cdrom is workin perfectly, its a dvdrom actually. and by the way i have no floppy drive in the machine, is this a problem??
 
yeah try another cd. i think the cd is bad. it did that with a computer i was working on. usually when it freezes, or when you press boot from cd and it doesn't boot, almost always the cd is bad. I agree with the other posts.....
If it were to get past that and then to the meters, now that then would be a hardware problem.
 
i have the dvdrom on master and the hdd on slave. they are both on the same ide cable. i tried another disk, but that aint the problem.
 
Make the Hard drive master and dvd drive slave if you are going to have it on the same cable. That should fix your problem I think. But its always best to separate hard drives and cdrom drives by having on different ide cables.
 
Is the cd a Burnt Copy, If So, you may have burnt it in correctly. Check on another computer to make sure cd isnt faulty. in BIOS, take away ALL other boot options except from cd, make sure ur actually trien 2 boot from right drive. start with CD in Drive.

Oh, about ur "floppy Drive" anything these days is either converted to cd, or just not needed. only thing you will only ever need 1 for is to save BIOS configurations. but if u know then that = NO PROBLEMO. Good luck
cya later
 
johnb35 said:
But its always best to separate hard drives and cdrom drives by having on different ide cables.
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Yeah that is defiantly a good idea. And another use for a floppy is when one time I got a new board and I had a SATA HDD and i needed to load the drivers onto a floppy when installing the OS but that's a different story.:D
 
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