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Boot Disk Failure after HDD Quick Wipe

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by nastrodamus666

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We have a system here that after 2 wipe attempts (2nd appeared successful) and a power surge, got a disk boot failure error. This thing will not boot from any of the drives. HDD is missing a jumper so I will try that back when I get back to this box next. Now if that doesn't work and still will not boot (We have tried various boot config's and all duds) were can we go from there? It would not even boot into any distro's of linux.

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by tintoman

If you have successfully wiped the hard drive then you have removed the operating system from it and therefore it isn't going to boot
So what is your question exactly?

by older mycroft

Kept asking myself "If the drive's been wiped, why is a boot being attempted and then complained about when it fails ?"

Odd to say the least.

by rob miners

that if you set the Drive up as Master when you replace your missing Jumper you will be good to go.

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