After post, the computer displays a message that basically says, “Boot disk failure, insert system disk and press enter.” The funny thing is it has a Harddrive being detected by bios that has a fresh installation of Win XP. To make matters more perplexing, if you insert a windows xp disk in the cd drive, and let it time out on the boot from cd, it will default to the harddrive and boot without a hitch. I have not found anything to fix this for XP. I have seen solutions for win98. It involves copying fresh versions of the system files for booting to the harddrive. Does anyone know how to this with the winXP recovery console? I have already tried reformatting, resetting and flashing bios, cpu, memory, and hd. It is a brand new mother board and CPU. This may have happened when someone shut power to the the computer without shutting windows down. Any help would be appreciated. (this is the second computer i’ve seen this happen on and another motherboard isn’t a viable solution at the moment.) Thanks again in advance.
Pratt
