I recently replaced my power source. When I turned on the machine It gave me "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"
I did a restore with the provided emachines system restore cd's,and I am still getting the message. The harddrive is being recognized in BIOS. I am running off a LINUX live cd right now.
Does anyone have any ideas? How could I check for a boot sector error on my harddisk?
I have had the disk boot failure quite a few times before.
I have 2 hard drives on my computer and only one has the windows operating system on it.
This error occurs when your computer cant boot from the selected hard disk. (for me anyway)
You will have to boot into your BIOS by pressing the del key or esc key when you restart and check the order in which the bios loads the drives.
If you have 2 hard drives and you find out that the one that has no operating system installed on it has a higher priority than the other hard disk that has an OS, you will have to manually change the order.
if it's IDE, make sure the drive with the os is on the connector on the end of the cable and not the one in the middle. And maybe check the molex(s) are plugged in right
You can download hdd diagnostics that mostly run from floppy disks simply by going to mfgr website for hard drives.
Yes your restore disks will work on any hard drive and it sounds like your hard drive has left the earth!
I recently replaced my power source. When I turned on the machine It gave me "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"
I did a restore with the provided emachines system restore cd's,and I am still getting the message. The harddrive is being recognized in BIOS. I am running off a LINUX live cd right now.
Does anyone have any ideas? How could I check for a boot sector error on my harddisk?
Sounds like hard drive has taken the deep six! I've been there with my old HP 304w - three times in as many years. That piece of junk went through hard drives like water!
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