BOOT DISK ERROR!!!!!

[hofferman]

I'm statrting my computer and i get a error message of disk boot error insert system disk and hit return I do that and nothing happens what is wrong please help!!!

[tcul72]

make sure your harddrive cable hasn't come unplugged from the connector.

[Paul Hubrich]

This is too obvious, but I'll mention it anyway - make sure you don't have a disk in the floppy drive, (or anything else that might be holding the drive door open)

[CCs]

Aside from the obvious.
Check that the active partition has the OS loaded on it.

But did this error happen all of a sudden or did you do some configuration prior?

[phecky]

Sometimes this error can occur if your HD gets corrupted. If it aint the obvious then try running scandisk from DOS prompt. Use a known good boot disk and type scandisk c: /autoscan at the prompt. The autoscan switch will prevent you from having to press the enter key after every corrupt file it finds during the scan. If scandisk doesn't fix the problem you might be looking at a re-format. Hope you have backups.

[hofferman]

Fellas
I tryed all of that and it still doesnt work!!! HELP ME

[Paul Hubrich]

Can you tell if the computer is trying to boot from the floppy or hard drive when the error occurs??

You may want to modify BIOS to boot the hard drive first and see if the computer starts. If so, then its probably a bad floppy drive.

If it won't boot from the hard drive, you probably have some type of hard drive problem. First see if the hard drive is being detected by BIOS, then see if you can run scandisk from a boot floppy.

Let us know what you find from these suggestions, and any other details on what the computer does, what you did (if anything) just prior to the problem, etc.

[headlnr]

The first thing I would do is FDISK /MBR about 5 times
reboot if this doesnt help Check and see if the Hard Drive Jumpers are set to CS if so change to Master, change the IDE cables
And as mentioned before FDISK
then format
oand this doesnt work count on the Hard Drive being replaced.
If you can take your drive to another computer put it on as a slave drive and see if you can see anything on it, if so move the important stuff before a format.