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by vmaniks

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Dear Sir / Madam

My office is having a high end desktop pc for testing purpose and the following devices are connected. The OS installed is windows 2000 professional, a day before during booting i am getting a message called
" disk boot failure, insert disk ", the bios
is not shown the existing hdd and others, immediately i have opened the CPU, disconnected
the primary ide hard disk power and re connected.
the system is working fine after that, what could be the possible reason, requesting all to mail me
the reasons or tell whether i have to take any precautionary measures. expecting your earliest reply in this regard.
1. USB card scanner
2. Analog modem ? connected in serial port
3. ISDN digital modem ? connected in serial port
4. DSL router ? connected in Ethernet card
5. 8 port USB hub ? connected in USB port
6. Iomega 120GB USB external hard disk connected in USB port
7. Anypak 40GB USB hard disk connected in USB port ? 2 nos
8. HP PSC 2210 4 in 1 printer ? connected in USB port
9. Smart Media reader ? connected in USB port
10. Palm device ? connected in USB port
11. Nokia cable connector ? connected in USB port
12. PS2 Key board
13. Optical mouse ? connected in USB port
14. 5 : 1 Creative speakers
15. Asus 128 MB AGP card
16. Creative sound card
17. 10/100 ethernet card
18. 1 GB RDRAM @ 1066 Mhz
19. IDE Hard disk @ 7200 rpm ? 2 nos
20. CD Writer
21. DVD Rom
22. FDD
23. Pinnacle Studio Deluxe version 8
24. Pentium IV processor @ 2.53 Ghz
25. Combo drive ? 2 nos ? connected in USB port

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by dmiles

There are several possible reasons for these errors

Check the signal connector and make sure the interface signal cables are inserted properly and completely at the drive and controller.Try new signal cables

Start the computer and use the F8 key for troubleshooting

Make sure there are no TSR's or drivers loaded that may interfere with drive operation

Run anti-virus checker to make sure there are no memory-resident or file based viruses

Enter the CMOS to make sure that all parameters entered for the drive are correct.Also make sure that drive is listed first boot device.

by donmars

I am guessing this is a new out of the box PC, and the first or second time you turned it on this happened? Or you relocated a fairly new pc ( a week or so) from there to here and this happened, and this is not a DELL or HP or Compaq but a specially built or put together PC. It quite easy and very common that during shipment components in the PC come loose due to the jarring and vibration of shipment and the fact that even though the best components are installed the assembly process is the weak link. You fixed it by reseating the cable. I hope you reseated all cables and checked for loose screws.
If all I have said is accurate then you have nothing to worry about except maybe a loose screw rolling around the motherboard with the power on!

by donmars

I would not worry about "TSR's or drivers loaded that may interfere with drive operation" because the drive was not recognized to begin with so it could not load anything! Nor would I be concerned with drive parameters since it is working now and it is more than likely set to auto-detect.

by wlbowers

There are several factors that will cause the error message you got.

The most common all lead to corruption on the drive it's self.

I would recommend that you do an immediate backup of the boot drive. This is done as insurance due to the fact that in the process of correcting errors you can loose some if not all data.

There are several ways to backup that drive. I see you have several drives attached to the computer.

I like to use Partition Magic and a second drive the same size or larger.

Copy the partition to the backup drive.

If your drive is starting to acquire bad blocks it can rapidly escalate.

The drive maker will have a test utility on their website in the support section. Download this and recertify the drive. I have included some direct links to the most common drives.

Remove spaces that might occur during copy and paste.

IBM/Hitachi: http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

Western Digital:
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp

Fujitsu:
http://www.fcpa.com/download/hard-drives/

Maxtor/Quantum:
http://tinyurl.com/ie1h

Good Luck Lee

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