Hopefully someone can help me out with my problem. The other day my comp was working fine and everything then yesterday i turn it on and i get a message saying [B]"boot failure insert system disk and press enter" [/B]i have no idea what to do, i am running windows xp pro. I dont have the xp cd. can anyone help a brotha out. thanks

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is that the exact error?

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yup that is the exact error that i get

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im sorry it says [B]disk boot failure insert system disk and press enter[/B]

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first is the bios seeing the hard drive that your install of winxp is on?

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before it would show the windows xp loading when it was working fine but now it doesnt even show the windows xp loading it gives me that message of the boot disk failure.

how would i go about finding it in my bios? where would it show xp in my bios?

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not good man.

have you moved the computer around at all? anything that may have loosened cables inside? how about power surges? sounds like the drive died to me...

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yea i did move the comp. when i moved.

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Make sure you don't have any floppies in the drive.

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that was the first thing i did and no floppies

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Usually you can access the bios setup by hitting the Delete key when the computer boots up and it shows the POST screen (where it does the RAM check).

In the bios, look at the setup for hard drives, make sure the primary drive is the one which has Win XP installed. Then look at the boot sequence and check it is correct.

Usually the common problem is if your computer is set up to boot from: 1) cdrom 2) floppy 3) hard disk. Which means if you have a CD left in the cdrom drive, or a disk left in the floppy drive, the bios is looking at them to boot up, which is wrong. So make sure you have no CDs or disks in those drives.

If you've done that and still having the same problem, open up the casing, check the cables connected to your hard drives. If everything looks secure ...

The partition table for the hard drive could be fucked, or your hard drive could be physically fucked.

It'd be best if you can get hold of a bootable Win XP install disc. Boot up with that, and there is an option to Repair.

Otherwise, you can look at [url]www.bootdisk.com[/url] for floppy disk options.

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im tryin to see if there is a way to burn the boot disks on a cd instead of floppy becuz it wants me to use 6 floppys for each boot disk especially for xp it wants me to get sp1 and sp2 as well as the win xp boot disk. so im tryin to see if it is possible to do it on a cd instead of having 18 floppy disks. but thanks so far for the help all im gonna try some of the things if any other suggestions i would appreciate it.

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you can do it with Nero, but you need a boot image for the cd... in other words, you need a bootable floppy to mirror to the CD

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on a sidenote, happy bday cyrus32 ;)

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Floppys still exist and are used? And I work in computers, so it's been kept a good secret i guess...

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definitely sounds like a hard disk crash...hope you've backed your shit up recently

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I'd do what feather said...... electricity spikes can do strange things in the bios.... check your bootsequence and double check to see that your OS HD is IN the boot sequence.... I've got the exact same error on my comp a few times and checking the HD boot sequence in the bios shows a missing HD.

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[quote=TomTom]on a sidenote, happy bday cyrus32 ;)[/quote]

thanks tom tom, also i dunno exactly were to look in my bios, also dont know what to do from there. I have downloaded win xp pro off of bitorrent but i have no idea how to burn it on a cd. it was a rar file and i extracted it then i went into that folder and it was a bunch of rar files from 0 to 44 and i extracted 0 now i got a folder that only has 2 files in it and one is a bin file and the other is a cue file. any help? man this is givin me a headache :(

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if you have a legit CD image, you can open the cue file with Nero or Easy CD Creator and burn to cd

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one good practice is to have a disk that has your os and another that holds your data... it lessens the pain associated with these types of issues...