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  1. ironchef05

    Hard disk boot failure / bios problem?

    Sorry for the delay, I've been trying numerous things, and so far nothing has worked. I think the problem is with the Master Boot Record. By using the hdat2 program recommended above, I compared my MBR to the one shown at http://www.ntfs.com/mbr-damaged.htm looking at the first three rows...
  2. ironchef05

    Hard disk boot failure / bios problem?

    Thank you for all the advice so far. Unfortunaltely, I'm still not making any progress. Changing the power connection doesn't do anything. I tried running fdisk, but it says no hard disk is found (unless the slave hard drive is connected, in which case it only finds that one). I really think...
  3. ironchef05

    Hard disk boot failure / bios problem?

    I have tried booting with the drive set as master on both IDE controllers, with no drives present, and with varying numbers of the other drives present. I am fairly certain that the hard drive isn't broken. The noise it makes isn't so much a clicking noise as a "rapidly reading data sound"...
  4. ironchef05

    Hard disk boot failure / bios problem?

    I have been receiving the message “Disk Boot Failure, Insert System disk and press enter” for about two days now. I recently tried to add a PCI graphics card to my machine (I already have an agp card). The new card was found, and the drivers were all installed happily. I was playing around...

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