cif Posted February 10, 2006 CID Share Posted February 10, 2006 i recently bought new ram and a new hd for my dads pc as they were fauly. i stick everything in and then boot up and set up the bios (which is think is right) then press F8 to boot from cd, it loads really slow, and then it says disk boot falure enter system disk and press enter, ive tried putting my xp disk in and pressing enter, it then loads for awhile again and then comes up with same message, disk boot falure, insert system disk and press enter. i have also tried doing the same with the motherboard disk and im still getting the same thing, any ideas? on and ive tried clearing cmos and it still wont work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just- Posted February 10, 2006 CID Share Posted February 10, 2006 try one thing at a time to eliminate problems try the old computer with the new RAM and see if ti works if it does then try with the new HD and see if it works it looks like to me a problem with the HD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cif Posted February 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 10, 2006 its brand new i just got it yesterday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just- Posted February 10, 2006 CID Share Posted February 10, 2006 yeah it can be wierd but it could be it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cif Posted February 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 10, 2006 i put the hd in another computer and i get the same thing, how can it be the hd when its brand new, i think its somehting to do with the computer, can youo get different types of hd's? well other than sata and ide of course, the two pc i want it on is excactly the same as the one i tested it on, only the one i tested it on has a gfx card and the one is using on board, and they have different cpu's but the rest is excactly the same, i think it might be the mobo, like not somehting wrong with the mobo just it cant use that type of hd or somehting? im probibly wrong but what do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cholla Posted February 10, 2006 CID Share Posted February 10, 2006 cif : Why doesn't it boot from the HD? It could be a bad or incorrect cable to the HD or maybe a pin got bent during the installation.Anyway I think the connection is loose & makes contact some of the time so it works then doesn't & you get the message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cif Posted February 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 10, 2006 well i dont think so seen as ive tried it on 2 pc's but ill check anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rammolo Posted February 10, 2006 CID Share Posted February 10, 2006 is the hd configured as "master", if its configured as cs it should be connected to the connector at the end of the IDE cable of course assuming is a parallel drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cholla Posted February 10, 2006 CID Share Posted February 10, 2006 cif ;Go into the BIOS & select the HD as the primary start device & see what happens. Do you have an OS on this HD? The reason I thought it might have been the HD cable was it had the problem in two computers. I don't think you should have to press F8 unless you are trying to boot in safe mode. on my PC I can select the floppy,then the cd, then the HD as the start devices in that order & it will still eventually boot from the HD after deciding I'm not booting from the other 2.I don't have my PC set this way but I have tried this just to see if it would work. rammolo is right it should be the master HD if you have more than one HD...Since you said the one you had was faulty I assume this is the only HD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amc11890 Posted February 10, 2006 CID Share Posted February 10, 2006 I know this may be stupid question, but is there a os on the hard drive or is it completely formatted? If it is formatted then it would not boot from startup because there is nothing to start up from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just- Posted February 11, 2006 CID Share Posted February 11, 2006 yeah you could also attach the HD to a running OS so it would be like an extran hard disk and not the main partion and then run some checks on it disk check and or reformat it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cif Posted February 11, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 11, 2006 it was set to master, and its brand new there no os on it, thats why im trying to boot from the cd to install windows and make a partition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cif Posted February 11, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 11, 2006 its working installing windows now, thjanks alot guys, the problem was i had the wrong end of the ide cable in the hd when it should have been in the cd drive and the one in the cd drive in the hd if that makes any sense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cholla Posted February 11, 2006 CID Share Posted February 11, 2006 cif ; Glad you got it working .So it was a cable problem just not a bad cable.I might have suggested they were switched but I didn't know you had the CD connection loose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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