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recently (a few weeks ago) I bought new hardware for my pc.
almost everything but a case, power unit and harddrives.
hooked almost everything up, including my new SATA harddrive, where I wanted
to make a fresh install of windows on, and excluding my 120 gig ATA HD
because of limited ata connections on my new motherboard.
Installed everything and everything is running (for a day of 10 I had a
'disk boot failure' problem that wanted my windows disk in the cd-tray. when
I did this it stopped complaining. and just recently it stopped asking for my
windows cd.. (knock on wood))
so I wanted to get my stuff of the 120 gig HD drive. I found a way in my
setup where I borrowed the ATA cable of one of my 2 cd-drives.
I try to start the pc and it says: '<windows>\system32\hal.dll is missing'
so I disconnected everything but my cd-drive, my sata disk with a fresh
windows install and the 120 gig disk and it starts saying 'disk boot failure'
again. but this time it won't accept my windows cd. I tried rearranging boot
settings in the bios settings but nothing will work. then I tried
disconnecting everything but the sata disk, but still disk boot failure.
connected the cd drive again but still a disk boot failure, even with windows
cd in it. (can windows boot of a sata disk???)
has anybody got a solution to this? I can't find any info on the web that is
specifically for this problem.
almost everything but a case, power unit and harddrives.
hooked almost everything up, including my new SATA harddrive, where I wanted
to make a fresh install of windows on, and excluding my 120 gig ATA HD
because of limited ata connections on my new motherboard.
Installed everything and everything is running (for a day of 10 I had a
'disk boot failure' problem that wanted my windows disk in the cd-tray. when
I did this it stopped complaining. and just recently it stopped asking for my
windows cd.. (knock on wood))
so I wanted to get my stuff of the 120 gig HD drive. I found a way in my
setup where I borrowed the ATA cable of one of my 2 cd-drives.
I try to start the pc and it says: '<windows>\system32\hal.dll is missing'
so I disconnected everything but my cd-drive, my sata disk with a fresh
windows install and the 120 gig disk and it starts saying 'disk boot failure'
again. but this time it won't accept my windows cd. I tried rearranging boot
settings in the bios settings but nothing will work. then I tried
disconnecting everything but the sata disk, but still disk boot failure.
connected the cd drive again but still a disk boot failure, even with windows
cd in it. (can windows boot of a sata disk???)
has anybody got a solution to this? I can't find any info on the web that is
specifically for this problem.