Disk Boot Error

Hello ladies and gents. I am having an issue with my computer runnin
vista ultimate x64. I have an ASUS M2N-SLI motherboard, 2 one-gig stick
of Patiot DDR2 800MHz RAM, a Pioneer DVD-RW optical drive, a nVidi
GeForce 8600 video card, an AMD Athalon dual core processor, onboar
sound/networking, and two hard drives: one being 160 gb, and the othe
being 1 tb. Okay, now onto the problem. I keep getting the disk boo
error, "DISK BOOT FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER". This i
after a plethora of previous problems. I was playing World of Warcraf
two days prior, and the computer just froze out of the blue. This wa
not a common occurance, so I just rebooted the machine. It kept comin
up with a "Windows failed to start due to a recent hardware or softwar
change" etc etc. You press enter to get to the two options, either vist
or the memory diagnostics. I tried vista and it would just go back t
the original, then I hit the diagnostic and it didn't help. I turned th
computer off and fiddled witht the connections to the hard drives. Whe
I booted it up, I was estatic that it went into windows. But it woul
load up the toolbar and stop loading. After a few more attempts to ge
it up and running, it didn't change, except it sometimes loaded up m
background and desktop icons as well. The repair utility said everthin
was fine. I decided there was nothing I needed to save that badly, an
reformatted the computer and reinstalled Vista. It would install, loa
up, and as soon as the comuter restarted at all, it would give a dis
boot error. I've reinstalled vista on different hard drives multipl
times, and it always gives a disk boot error. Anybody have a better ide
than me

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Duall

Duall;1118865 Wrote:
> Hello ladies and gents. I am having an issue with my computer runnin
> vista ultimate x64. I have an ASUS M2N-SLI motherboard, 2 one-gig stick
> of Patiot DDR2 800MHz RAM, a Pioneer DVD-RW optical drive, a nVidi
> GeForce 8600 video card, an AMD Athalon dual core processor, onboar
> sound/networking, and two hard drives: one being 160 gb, and the othe
> being 1 tb. Okay, now onto the problem. I keep getting the disk boo
> error, "DISK BOOT FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER". This i
> after a plethora of previous problems. I was playing World of Warcraf
> two days prior, and the computer just froze out of the blue. This wa
> not a common occurance, so I just rebooted the machine. It kept comin
> up with a "Windows failed to start due to a recent hardware or softwar
> change" etc etc. You press enter to get to the two options, either vist
> or the memory diagnostics. I tried vista and it would just go back t
> the original, then I hit the diagnostic and it didn't help. I turned th
> computer off and fiddled witht the connections to the hard drives. Whe
> I booted it up, I was estatic that it went into windows. But it woul
> load up the toolbar and stop loading. After a few more attempts to ge
> it up and running, it didn't change, except it sometimes loaded up m
> background and desktop icons as well. The repair utility said everthin
> was fine. I decided there was nothing I needed to save that badly, an
> reformatted the computer and reinstalled Vista. It would install, loa
> up, and as soon as the comuter restarted at all, it would give a dis
> boot error. I've reinstalled vista on different hard drives multipl
> times, and it always gives a disk boot error. Anybody have a better ide
> than me

I'm sorry. Never mind. In the BIOS, it was set to boot from th
opposite hard drive. Fixed it

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Duall

Hello, I'm having a similar problem with an eMachine with Vista hom
premium. It happened after I installed some software from Verizon. I'v
since uninstalled it, but I'm still getting the disk failure error
Right now I'm doing a memory check, which I wasn't able to do from th
recovery option; I had to run it before it began loading Vista. When I'
in the recovery tool, the startup repair doesn't run at all. It tells m
I don't have a hard drive, or that it can't find it; it seems to thin
my C: drive is a removable drive. I've run chkdsk several times, and i
says it's repairing files and indexes. I'm able to get into Vista usin
the boot disk, but today the PC rebooted itself, then I got the blu
screen. Since then, I either have to use safe mode, or if I go i
normally, I get the blue screen again. Does anyone have any ideas?
can't do a complete reinstall because I don't have backups of severa
important files. Thanks

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shebajd1

Someone on this site suggested using Spinrite to fix my hard drive
problem. I eventully had to bite the bullet and spend the $89, but guess
which machine I'm sending this message from? It was worth the price
because it fixed my problem.


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shebajd1

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