Hi guys and gals,
I'm getting a fantastic 'DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER', which was great for a while, but now I'm bored of it and want it to go away. Help!
Let me explain how I've managed to screw my PC up. Firstly I had a dual boot setup, with Vista Home Premium installed on an SATA drive and XP installed on a PATA drive. I also had a third PATA drive for my music collection. Everything hunky-dory. Then I decided I didn't need XP anymore so removed it from the dual boot wotsit (so now PC just boots Vista without asking). When I tried to format it however, Windows wouldn't let me as it was marked as a system disk. So I gave up ('If at first you don't succeed...'). Still, everything was working ok and just meant I had XP on a disk I wasn't using.
Then yesterday I removed the XP drive and popped in a brand spanking new SATA drive. Upon booting the machine I get aforementioned error message. Hmmm. So, I looked in the BIOS - all disks are recognised as expected and boot order was 1. CD/DVD 2. HDD. So then I removed my lovely sparkly new SATA drive and put my horrible dirty old XP PATA drive back. Same error message. So then I tried sticking in the Vista DVD and rebooting, which did in fact let me back into Windows - hurrah! However, subsequently, everytime I boot WITHOUT the Vista DVD I get the same error message and everytime I boot WITH the Vista DVD it launches the Vista installation program - argggghh! Haven't run the installation yet (too scared), thought I'd ask for advice first.
So, apologies for the long-winded saga but hopefully by giving you all my life story you can help me fix the problem (preferably without losing my current installation of Vista!). Before anyone shouts at me via emoticons or any other means for not searching the forum or google, I did do this but couldn't find anything helpful, honest.
ASUS M2NPV-VM nF430
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ 2.20GHz
4GB RAM
GeForce 8800GTS
1xSATA 320GB HDD with Vista Home Premium
1xPATA 120GB HDD with XP
1xPATA 145GB HDD
Thanks!
I'm getting a fantastic 'DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER', which was great for a while, but now I'm bored of it and want it to go away. Help!
Let me explain how I've managed to screw my PC up. Firstly I had a dual boot setup, with Vista Home Premium installed on an SATA drive and XP installed on a PATA drive. I also had a third PATA drive for my music collection. Everything hunky-dory. Then I decided I didn't need XP anymore so removed it from the dual boot wotsit (so now PC just boots Vista without asking). When I tried to format it however, Windows wouldn't let me as it was marked as a system disk. So I gave up ('If at first you don't succeed...'). Still, everything was working ok and just meant I had XP on a disk I wasn't using.
Then yesterday I removed the XP drive and popped in a brand spanking new SATA drive. Upon booting the machine I get aforementioned error message. Hmmm. So, I looked in the BIOS - all disks are recognised as expected and boot order was 1. CD/DVD 2. HDD. So then I removed my lovely sparkly new SATA drive and put my horrible dirty old XP PATA drive back. Same error message. So then I tried sticking in the Vista DVD and rebooting, which did in fact let me back into Windows - hurrah! However, subsequently, everytime I boot WITHOUT the Vista DVD I get the same error message and everytime I boot WITH the Vista DVD it launches the Vista installation program - argggghh! Haven't run the installation yet (too scared), thought I'd ask for advice first.
So, apologies for the long-winded saga but hopefully by giving you all my life story you can help me fix the problem (preferably without losing my current installation of Vista!). Before anyone shouts at me via emoticons or any other means for not searching the forum or google, I did do this but couldn't find anything helpful, honest.
ASUS M2NPV-VM nF430
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ 2.20GHz
4GB RAM
GeForce 8800GTS
1xSATA 320GB HDD with Vista Home Premium
1xPATA 120GB HDD with XP
1xPATA 145GB HDD
Thanks!