Windows Help

[bhinderharminder]

hi,

ive started up my computer today and i got a message saying "boot disc failure..insert system disc and press enter", ive had this message come up before about a week ago and all i did was i restarted my pc and it worked fine, ive tryed doing the same now but it dont work....HELP

CHEERS

[Jamesb4uk]

Make sure there is no disk in the CD or floppy drive,

Check the Hard drive is still connected.

If that fails - probably the hard disk has failed mate.

J

[bhinderharminder]

Make sure there is no disk in the CD or floppy drive,

Check the Hard drive is still connected.

If that fails - probably the hard disk has failed mate.

J

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theres nothing in the cd and floppy drive, if the bios still see's the hdd dose it mean it has failed? even if i am getting these messages

[Jamesb4uk]

Have you got your windows XP disk?

Try seeing if that detects or repairs the drive mate.

could be the boot sectors been corupted.

J

[bhinderharminder]

Have you got your windows XP disk?

Try seeing if that detects or repairs the drive mate.

could be the boot sectors been corupted.

J

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ok, will give that a try in a bit

cheers

[bhinderharminder]

Have you got your windows XP disk?

Try seeing if that detects or repairs the drive mate.

could be the boot sectors been corupted.

J

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ok, will give that a try in a bit

cheers

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ve got it working hurray, i changed unplugged the ide lead from the m/boad and put it into where the cd-rom ide lead was and put the cd-rom lead where the hdd was. (hope that makes sence).

[MarkMcQ]

Probably just a dodgy cable, giving an intermittent fault then.

[JAHill]

I had that message a few times and I was going spare trying to figure out why... Until I noticed my USB memory stick plugged in the back. Didn't realise my PC was trying to boot from the stick!

Duhh!

Cheers,

Jim

[GT4 BOOSTER]

boot from xp disc, click " R " for repair , at the dos prompt type "FIXBOOT" - without the " " , a new boot sector is written to the hard drive.

if this dont work press f8 , boot into safe mode and system restore to a time when all was ok.

[Jamesb4uk]

ve got it working hurray, i changed unplugged the ide lead from the m/boad and put it into where the cd-rom ide lead was and put the cd-rom lead where the hdd was. (hope that makes sence).

Glad you got it sorted mate - PC's can be gits to get working again once they fail.

Now you gotta keep an eye on your CD drive lol if that fail's then you know its the cable

J

[bhinderharminder]

ve got it working hurray, i changed unplugged the ide lead from the m/boad and put it into where the cd-rom ide lead was and put the cd-rom lead where the hdd was. (hope that makes sence).

Glad you got it sorted mate - PC's can be gits to get working again once they fail.

Now you gotta keep an eye on your CD drive lol if that fail's then you know its the cable

J

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Thanks for the help chaps