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I'm getting "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"

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I just build my pc and I was very exciting until I got this message "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"
Before this message it shows on the header JMICRON and on the bottom "detecting drives:no drives" then blink once, "detecting drives: no drive" again Then it goes "boot from CD:DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"
Here is what I tried so far,
1. I set the priority booting device as the cd rom - hard drive
2. I changed the replugged and changed the SATA cable to new one.
3. I unplugged the hdd drives and tried booting with only cd rom drive.

Is there a possibility that the MOBO is damaged or somehow doomed?
I also checked the CMOS features and it show all the drives in it( 2 hard drives and one CD drive).
Please give me some help ..

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does the computer POST ok ? if it does then you probably dont have a hardware problem .
Id pull the power from the hard drive you are not installing windows on . Just to simplify things



When you set the dvd to be first boot device did you F10 to save the changes and exit?
Insert the disk and then hit the power button to turn the pc off . Then push it again and it should boot the windows disk

Reply to Outlander_04

lucasuck wrote :

I just build my pc and I was very exciting until I got this message "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"
Before this message it shows on the header JMICRON and on the bottom "detecting drives:no drives" then blink once, "detecting drives: no drive" again Then it goes "boot from CD:DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"
Here is what I tried so far,
1. I set the priority booting device as the cd rom - hard drive
2. I changed the replugged and changed the SATA cable to new one.
3. I unplugged the hdd drives and tried booting with only cd rom drive.

Is there a possibility that the MOBO is damaged or somehow doomed?
I also checked the CMOS features and it show all the drives in it( 2 hard drives and one CD drive).
Please give me some help ..



What mobo do you have ? I'm going to guess and say it's an Asus with a Nvidea chipset...but I could be wrong.

Reply to Why_Me

This might sound like a stupid question, but did you actually do what it said to do? Did you insert the OS disk in the Optical drive and press enter? And like outlander said, make sure you save the changes you made to the BIOS.


Message edited by xthekidx on 04-20-2009 at 08:55:36 AM
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Reply to xthekidx

Do you have any floppy disks inserted? I know that almost nobody has them any more but a non-bootable floppy is often a cause of this.

Reply to randomizer

I would try this, "Insert system disk and press enter", that should get ya going.

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Reply to zipzoomflyhigh

Good suggestions by everyone, but I have a question.

The hard drive that you are using is it new or did you pull from another machine? Disk Boot Failure are sometimes representative of a failing hard drive. That fact that the Bios sees it, but doesn't boot would be a good sign (other than checking the cables which it seems you have done).

Did you set the drives up in a Raid Array, this could be adding to the problem, but less likely.

Let us know what happens.


Message edited by rdawise on 04-21-2009 at 04:18:32 AM
Reply to rdawise

I am having the same problem. It's a brand new build (first build) and I'm trying to install Windows 7. Whenever I put the DVD in the drive and hit enter I get the "DISK BOOT ERROR" message. I have prioritized and saved the booting instructions as dvd/cd-rom, hard drive and then flash drive. It's recognizing both my hard drive and optical drive in the bios settings. Any help would be appreciated

Reply to mattbu

Why_Me wrote :

What mobo do you have ? I'm going to guess and say it's an Asus with a Nvidea chipset...but I could be wrong.



i got an asus with nvidia chips set!!!!!!! got same error, bios doeasnt read hdd, and if i put vista dvd, it goes to the loading screen and then it crashes there with a blue screen.

helppp!!!1

Reply to martinpeim16

martinpeim16 wrote :

i got an asus with nvidia chips set!!!!!!! got same error, bios doeasnt read hdd, and if i put vista dvd, it goes to the loading screen and then it crashes there with a blue screen.

helppp!!!1



Go into your bios and change the boot order from CD DRive to Harddrive.

Reply to Why_Me

Why_Me wrote :

Go into your bios and change the boot order from CD DRive to Harddrive.



ok, this is the full story:
I wake up, turn the pc on, this error shows up. I look up in forums and see that people say i coul have the cables loose. I check, i try puting it in all sata ports, with differetn cables, nothing.
I changed the bios to boot from the hdd first then cd-rom.
The i put the vista dvd and the windows loggin screen crashes after been stuck fo a while.
I put my motherboard cd, and try to use the "fdisk /mbr" command and it says it cant change the boot tables.
The i c people saying it could be a virus, but i got no idea how to scan for one if i cant even acces windows.
If i check in the start screen, i see the computer doesnt detect the HDD.
I go into the partitions section, and i c a partition of the hdd but only of 24Mb instead of my 500Gb.
pls help, this is so suddenn!!!!!

Reply to martinpeim16

Hmmmmm .... stuck between a rock and a hard place.... well if you dont need the info or the data on the drive then I would run a debug script on the drive and start over on the os load......

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Reply to shabaa

Make sure you put the disk in right side up. I continually got this error while using my PC. It was dark in the room, and I checked and I put the disk in data side up.


Message edited by cloudstrife7 on 08-17-2009 at 07:14:54 AM
Reply to cloudstrife7

I am having the same issue.

I just purchased Windows 7 Professional for my home machine, insert the disk to boot and i get the "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER".

This is a new machine, using all new parts except for the DVD drive.

Things i've tried so far,
1. Inserted my Windows XP Professional disk, this boots fine,
2. Inserted my Windows 7 disk into my laptop (currently running Vista), this boots fine,
3. Inserted my Windows 7 disk into my old desktop (currently running Windows XP Professional), this boots fine,
4. Checked, double checked and triple checked the BIOS, all is setup correctly with the DVD being the first boot device.

I have done lots of searches using good old Google, and i can see that noone is having the same issue as me!

Any help would be greatly appreciated in this, as i might need to see if i can send Windows 7 back if i cannot install it.

Cheers to all
Steph

Reply to stephanpieri

Hiya all,

Just to let you know that i managed to get past this issue.

For any of you in the same situation as i was in, i did 2 things.

1. My motherboard with default settings for increasing performance by using MIT, some overclocking tool. The CPU performance was set to Turbo, so i put this back to Standard.

2. The other thing i did was replace the DVD drive in my computer. I do not know if this was the thing causing the issue, but my computer is now in the process of installing my new Windows 7.

I hope that this can be of use to anyone in need.

Cheers
Steph

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