No System Disk Error on Boot up

[moggy44]

After bios startup I get the dreaded No System Disk error and, its a machine I repaired from a Power Supply Burn out a couple of weeks ago which damaged most of the major components including the H.Drive.
I rebuilt this with new parts, I am loathed to have to re-format H.Drive and reload Windows XP.
Can I recover from this by re-installing the repair Windows XP option or could it be a system file I can find and replace that may be corrupt.
The F8 key also won't let me get to safe mode either.
Any help would be grateful as I normally just zap the drive and start again.

Regards John.m

 

[moggy44]

Ignore my posting it turned out to be a floppy that was stuck in the drive.

Regards John.M

 

[bcastner]

All of us have done the same thing.
Glad you got the issue sorted.

 

[temporello]

Good for you then!
By the way,sometimes it would be helpful if we could edit or remove our own posts,wouldn't it?

 

[willdwilly]

FYI . I go to another forum ( political ) and it has an edit function you can use after posting. If the moderators or who ever would like I could give them a link to that forum.Kelly

 

[Turkbear]

In This ( and all Tek-Tips forums) you can flag your own post as inappropriate and it will be removed..Just explain why you want it gone..My experience is that response time is quite good.

 

[moggy44]

Just as a matter of interest, as I have had this many times on machines I have repaired.
If you do get a hard drive error such as the one I posted earlier and it is obviously the hard drive can you recover from this or would the drive need re-formatting.
I normally re-format or replace the drive.

Regards John.m

 

[wolluf]

you may be able to rewrite the mbr and/or the boot sector (fixmbr & fixboot from XP's recovery console) to fix this. I'd also run chkdsk while in recovery console.

 

[jezzah123]

Dont know if this will help any of u, but when i have had that message b4 sometimes if u go into the bios and autodetect the hard disk again that gets rid of the error, strange but it may work, worth trying b4 formatting lol

;-)