"DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER."

[kfletcher2005]

Same problem for me. I have asus p5n-d. I found a workaround. It turns out I had a usb 500 gig seagate freeagent drive hanging off of it. The bios thought the usb seagate drive was the boot drive superseding the raid controller. In the bios when you define the boot sequence, you select the 'hard drive' as first, second, & third - as many as you can spare. Initially I know I was able to boot off raid-0. I must have fat fingered the bios at some point. The bios does not specify 'which' hard drive, it just says 'hard drive'. I enabled 'hard drive' for all my 4 boot options and it worked for me. I didn't try just 1st & 2nd. I got frustrated so I enabled them all. it works now!!.

 

[Guest]

I've been having this problem last time... and this is how i fixed it...

Spoiler

I opened the Cover of my CPU.. then touched something, and after that,tried just disconnecting my hard disk (well... i only have one hard disk... so it isn't a problem) and after i disconnected and reconnected it, I tried just moving all the parts of my PC... JUST MOVING them and not disconnecting... and when I returned the Cover, I tried turning it on... and it still says "DISK BOOT FAILURE" ... so I went on to the BIOS... (u know, the DEL thingy to enter... ) and went to the IDE HDD DETECTION THINGY...and i always type "Y" on all the options... and try to save the changes on the BIOS and reboot... and then... it's fixed! I can't believe it! This is just an optional solution... i don't really know if this will fix your computer... and IT WILL ONLY WORK ON PC,s... well.. if it WILL work...

Just trying...
Joshua Tahanlangit

a 13-year old computer fixer... 😛

 

[Guest]

Is the disk access settings set to LBA in the BIOS? If not, change that and re-install the OS.

 

[kibrom]

hello, there the problem might solve some pc i don't know but my pc is acer and i tried to reformat it and it startup normally abd works until i turn off it but while i restart it later the problem returns back

 

[Guest]

I will suggest u check the data cables that goes to the harddisk, be it SATA or IDE. The cables can be bad.

 

[duggyhow]

I will suggest u check the data cables that goes to the harddisk, be it SATA or IDE. The cables can be bad.

Hello, I have the same problem, it only gives the Disk Boot Failure messsage when it has been off for a while. If you turn it back off and back on again, it will boot fine. What is wroing?

 

[bobinator5000]

Problem: When booting Windows Vista or 7 from an NVRAID controller after configuring a RAID array, the OS will not boot unless the windows installation disk is booted first.

Description & Fix:

windows finds a harddrive, enumerates the volumes on those drives (C:, D: E:, etc), then enumerates the next harddrive, and repeats. The order Windows finds harddrives in is based on the motherboard being used, on the M2n-SLI Deluxe it enumerates (assuming this from reading not experimentation) SATA1-6 then the JMICRO internal then external Sata then the EIDE port. Ports in RAID mode are counted together as a single disk.

If, during windows setup, you install windows onto a different volume than C: (meaning during the setup screens you see a bunch of partitioned and unpartitoned volumes and the volume you are installing onto isn't the first on that list), the windows boot configuration manager will point winload.exe to a non-c: drive and assumes that volume is booting first/is mounting first, thus the error and the reason why booting off an optical drive and letting windows setup timeout works because the boot manager on the dvd is being executed and not the one on the drive.

The hard, non-technical fix is to either setup your RAID array on SATA1&2 or unplug all other drives then install windows 7 onto just the drive or raid volume you want. This will keep windows from seeing more boot volumes than it should.

The easy, technical fix is to edit the Boot Configuration Data via BCDEDIT.exe or a GUI based BCD Editor.


Background:

The Asus M2n SLI Deluxe has two Raid controllers; a JMICRON SB686 controller off an X1 PCIE port to do e-sata and a connector on the motherboard, and the native NVRAID via the MCP55/Nforce5 southbridge available via the Mediashield menu's. Either controller can be used for RAID across all the drives, however, the JMICRON controller is ganged to the MCP55 southbridge; the NVRAID controller is faster as it is located directly on the southbridge and isn't bottlenecked by an x1 pci connection.

When Windows starts searching for drives it does it in the order of ports from first to last, defined by the motherboard. The motherboard enumerates drives based on boot order; SATA ports 1-6, then the JMICRON Controller, then EIDE.

For example, the setup I was attempting:

SATA PORT 1&2: Stripe off 2X64GB SSD
SATA PORT 3: Optical Drive.
SATA PORT 4: 1TB Single HDD
SATA PORT 5&6: Mirror off 2X1TB HDD
EIDE PORT: 250GB HDD.

As the SSD Mirror hadn't been formatted, It enumerated partitons on the 1TB disk first thus my boot configuration data pointed to the D: Volume; since I was booting off the Mirror it didn't have a D: to boot off of and failed.

 

[shankar9491]

As suggested by my friend I changed the small round shaped battery inside the hard disk which costs Rs 20.00. System started functioning normally.

 

[ribena]

I had nearly the same exact problem with my Asus P5ND2-SLI a while back.

I had just installed a second SATA 300 GB hard drive. After rebooting, I got the "Disk Boot Failure" message. I also found that just the presence of the WinXP disk in the CD drive would allow the computer to boot normally. I didn't have to boot from the CD, just have it in the drive. If I disconnected the new hard drive, everything worked just fine as before. Finally after much searching, I was able to solve the problem by updating the motherboard BIOS from the Asus website. If you haven't done so already, I'd try that.

Hope this helps.

As a side note, I also experienced an intermittent problem with WinXP hanging during boot. I finally found that if I did not install the chipset drivers that came with the motherboard, the problem never resurfaced.

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Hey there. I have the same motherboard as you, but I am running Windows7 and I do not know which bios update I should use, I went to the Asus p5nd2-sli webpage, but it only had drivers for vista and XP. I could use your help please.

 

[aamir646]

Gotta pay my dues: problem solved!

After much searching through the internet, I discovered that some people had successes by changing the actual order of the SATA cables.

My new hard disk was on SATA port 3 or 4 I think. I disconnected the Port 1 HD and connected the new target master HD on Port 1.

Did a fresh reinstall.

Everything boots normally now....

Microsoft never told me this.... They refused to help me, thinking I was trying to hack their software which I paid a good $300 for... p.o.ed!!!

HI, good day, i m also facing the same problem DISK BOOT FAILURE, ......
but after trying each and every thing I reach on the consequence that it must be motherboad or BIOS problem...
Because I also tried by unplugging the hard-drive and attached only the CD rom to boot from it... but system Never tries to read anything from CD and suddenly say "Disk Boot Failure, insert ................."

And the CD-DRIVE that i m using with this system is 100% working on the other computer...i m using...
any one who can tell the solution.....he has...!!!

 

[bullabog]

This is a most common problem, there is a solution what u have to do is Disk Boot Manager CD is available in the market just get it and install it then your HDD problem will be solved and u can work with ur system as usually try to get the Disk Boot Manager CD. Dont do any other things which destructs ur pc bye..... try it.

i had also the same problem when i boot a blue screen appears saying corrupt files and fix cable so what i did is i connect the hdd to slave and format the disk drive so data where deleted. then remove the primary and innstall the drive i formated. now when i restart my computer an error message saying ntldr missing. what i did is i went to bios setup instead of booting to 1st to hdd i boot to cd 1st and 2nd is hdd. now i restart my pc and boot from cd and i did it works fine. :lol:

 

[tgforce82]

i had the same problem too i got a new blank hard disk and installd windows on it
good luck

 

[hirak1986]

i' am having the problem with ASUS P5N73-AM motherboard , problem is cropping up every alternate period of using the system.... i wonder what sort of problem is that. my engineers are also failing to detect any problem, either the hdd or motherboard seems to have some problem which is totally un-detectable