Weird Boot Error On new XP Installation

[ConBran]

Hi Folks,

Hoping someone can shed some light on this for me.

I have recently upgraded my friends machine from 2000 to XP (aswell as increasing the H/Ware specs of the machine). The installation went fine, booted up the first few times nop problem. Then something weird has started happening.

When the machine is turned on, while things are booting up I get a 'BOOT DISK FAILURE, PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER' error message appearing. The funny thing is, if I have a bootable cd/dvd in the dvd drive (say win xp) and I dont press a key which would allow the cd/dvd to boot, windows will start perfectly fine.

I have tried changing around the boot order so that it is HDD1 first and nothing else, same error, so that it is CD1 followed by LAN and then HDD1, same error.

I have to admit that I am absolutely stumped by this, I have installed hundreds of operating systems and never once have I seen anything like this.

Any suggestions would be very, very welcome.

Cheers

 

[gpalmer711]

Try running the bootcfg command from the Recovery Console - make sure that the CD is not in the machine when you run this.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291980

Greg Palmer
Freeware Utilities for Windows Administrators.

http://www.palmersoft.co.uk

 

[firewolfrl]

I had an old intel dual processor SCSI PIII box do that to me... the fix was in the BIOS on the boot order...it also was a controller error
sounds almost like you have a MBR failure...turn on the SMART in the BIOS as a failing HD will do this too

 

[linney]

New build only boots with XP disk in drive

http://www.ozzu.com/ftopic68713.html

And some more.

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=o...&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&sa=N&tab=wg

 

[ConBran]

Cheers folks,

Ill try runnig the bootcfg from the recovery console and see what that comes up with.

I've played around with the boot order to see if that would make a difference and turned on the SMART setting in the BIOS too, but it made no difference.

Ill let you know how i get on.

C