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Disk Boot Failure, Windows XP

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by dc_chiefwiggums

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Problem: Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk
Hardware: P4 3ghz, 1GB Ram, New GeForce AGP Card, New ATA Hard Drive

Formatted and installed Windows XP onto an older harddrive. Finished, took the disk out, rebooted, and got the error "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk". So I troubleshooted... Switched out IDE cables with brand new ones. Tried a new Hard Drive. Nothing - brand new installs on new parts and still won't boot up... Bios detects the hard drive just fine. Suggestions? Help....!? lol

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by dc_chiefwiggums

No, there is no floppy drive. And I figured out that the SATA DVD-ROM that I had attached was/is causing a conflict. I just can't figure out why. I have 2 IDE HD's connected to IDE-1, a CD-RW connected to IDE-2, and two SATA Hard Drives connected to SATA 1 and 2. They all detect and work fine - but as soon as I attached the DVD-RW to the SATA 3 - I get the Disk Boot Failure error......puzzeling...

by robo_dev

I would expect that most BIOSs would expect the SATA drives to be the boot devices.

Is it really trying to boot from the DVD Drive?

Set the bios to factory defaults and be sure the PC bios is the latest and greatest version. It may be some sort of timing issue with the drive initialization.

That's a whole lot of drives to hang off one power supply, so it may be a power issue. If this were the case, then it may also fail to boot with SATA 3 power connected, but not data cable.

by seanferd

And check that boot order in BIOS. Make sure you know who HD0 is.

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