on 1 and vista on the other. With the xp disk in the drive I can boot both Vista and XP depending on what I choose. Without It I recieve A Boot Disk Failure. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thx in advance . Hey everyone, I built a dual boot...

back. I had just installed a second SATA 300 GB hard drive. After rebooting, I got the "Disk Boot Failure" message. I also found that just the presence of the WinXP disk in the CD drive would allow the computer to boot normally. I didn't have to boot...

Disk Boot Failure. Hi guys and gals, I'm getting a fantastic 'DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER', which was great for a while, but now I'm bored of it and want it to go away. Help! Let me explain how I've managed to screw my PC up....

system disk - desperate for answer. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion () Question I think I know the answer - BUT my mom is trying to install a cd-rom drive in an old Windows 98 machine. We need a system disk with cd-rom support...

old 3.5" Windows Start-up floppy disk that I created when first setting up my old PC, but while it did reveal the files on that disk, it wouldn't boot from that disk saying there was a disk failure (this is usually my circumstance with floppies--old or new)....

over to wake it up), I saw a BSoD (my first in months). Started to reboot, and when I came back a few minutes later, saw a dreaded "System drive failure, insert boot disk" or something equally heart-stopping. Figured my C: head crashed, but didn't have time...

If I take the cd out, >| then I get an error message, "Boot disk failure" or >| something similar. This is an older computer. Any ideas? >| Thanks >>>. > Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup () This article may help. -- Regards,...

Disk Failure, insert sytem disk" If I hit the reset button then the system will boot up. Can anyone help with this. Thank you.. everytime i turn on my system with a Biostar MB and AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual-Core, it says "Boot Disk Failure, insert sytem disk" If...

the first failed boot was only a few seconds on, then off for a while. The second boot got you to the disk failure prompt, then it was turned off, but total "On Time" was only a few seconds also. More off time until the third boot. This time the system ran...

of some help with a MSI K9VGM-V motherboard that I had purchased in last year. Now I'm having a problem where computer wont boot from the DVD ROM DRIVE and keeps saying BOOT DISK FAILURE PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK then when I restart the machine it just stops...