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Solve : "Disk Boot Failure, Please Insert Disk..." but HDD is detected during the POST? |
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Answer» Hello, it's my second time to ask a help from this valuable website, I'm a teacher from Philippines who teach secondary school students. And I'm working now for the grades of the students. Now my problem is that when I booted my PC to work from my files... then the message shown: but surprisingly when i try to detect my HDD in the BIOS set-up it was DETECTED in the primary master... so that's it, that's my problem.It supposed to be the Primary Master. Check the Boot order and make sure it is set to boot first. What were you doing before the problem? What Operating System? Also, can you make sure there is no Floppy in the driveAlso, did you make any changes to the BIOS before you had this problem?before this happen, my pc ask for a ntldr, so i what i did is that i boot first the cd which contents XP cd, and press R for repair and do this ff: copy D:/i386/ntldr.com it was sucessfully added then, copy D:/i386/ntdetect and it successfully added too. then i set up the bios first boot: HDD (0) second boot: Go back into Recovery Console and type in: bootcfg /rebuild The Recovery Console will then try to LOCATE all INSTALLED copies of Windows and ask you if you want to add them to the NEW BOOT.INI file it's about to create. Say yes to the ones you want.next time have some back up storage for some important files in case worst case happen. Dudes... huhuhu... when I try to slave my hard disk in other computer it doesn't show it's drive in my "My Computer" but when before that it really detected in the BIOS and when it show in device manager that hard disk is there an detected... do u think it is on my hard disk??? is there any solution with this??? Have you jumper set it to slave, or plug it in secondary IDE channel using seperate IDE cable? Please check hd configuration and verify that it is being properly detected in the BIOS...... If it can be detected in another computer, BACKUP your files as soon as possible, your hard drive IS probably failing...... Quote from: rebel214 on September 09, 2008, 09:44:33 PM
Possible, but the information given just points to accidentally LOST boot information. The fact that the drive was detected as Primary Master in the original computer is not enough to boot up windows XP. the disk also has to have, say, windows XP on it (which it does) and the boot loader (which was missing). The copies of ntdetect and ntldr need to be placed in C:\, as opposed to C:\windows. Not sure if this is where they ended up. placing the drive into a different computer would require the movement of the jumper to indicate it is a slave, and, if the primary master present didn't previously have a slave drive, a possible jumper change in it as well (from Single Master to Master W/ slave present or something similiar). did you try JJ 3000's suggestion?Quote from: dino_cuyag on September 09, 2008, 08:54:25 PM Dudes... huhuhu... when I try to slave my hard disk in other computer it doesn't show it's drive in my "My Computer" Correct drive and jumper configurations? Quote from: dino_cuyag on September 09, 2008, 08:54:25 PM but when before that it really detected in the BIOS and when it show in device manager that hard disk is there an detected... Is the hard drive CAN be detected in the BIOS? Go to the web site for the company that made the drive. They normally have tools that you can download to test the drive out and see if it is damaged. They are Free..... http://www.maxtor.com/en/main/support.html |
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