DISK BOOT FAILURE problems

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Alan Robinson

Can anyone help as I'm mystified!!
I have 3 HD's in my Intel based XP system with the boot drive installed in a
caddy. (I have a spare caddy with another drive for a backup and I use Ghost
to copy the drive image to the spare drive when I backup)

I removed the graphics card (ATI Radeon9600) a few weeks ago to troubleshoot
my son's PC and when I replaced it my system failed to see the IDE 1 and 2
drives. Rebooted, drives appeared and then boot "Disk Boot Failure, insert
system disk and press enter".

I tried:
Updating the mother board BIOS
CHKDSK found errors on C: and D: drives
Eventually installed Windows XP SP2
Running CHKDSK found and fixed errors on C: and D: drives
Ran FIXBOOT and FIXMBR etc
Did an XP install/repair

Eventually did a fresh Windows installation on the spare drive and found it
still produced the same error message.

After a lot of messing around, I found that disconnecting the D: drive and
pressing enter when the "insert system disk" message appeared (with no CD in
the drive), everything booted up OK.
If I re-connect the drive, I can't boot.
The "Ultimate Boot disk" reckons the D: drive is fine and I can read the
data on it.

Sorry to be so long winded but has anyone any ideas??
 
Check bios and see what drive it is set to boot from. It appears that the
boot order might have changed (or drive letters)
 
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