Really Weird One

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Today, I had someone that I built a computer for a few weeks ago call me.
"I try to boot my computer and all I get is a INSERT SYSTEM DISK error".
Ok, maybe his HD died. This has never happened to me, but there is a first
time. So he brings it in. I try to start it and get the same message. I
check and there is no floppy in the drive, so I put in an old Win98 disk and
the thing boots to the recovery disk screen. I check the HD directory, and
all is there. Pull the disk, restart, and get the same error message. Now
I'm thinking the board's cooked. Just then I looked at the card reader I
installed on the front of the case. Everything worked ok after I removed
the compact flash card from the card reader. Sometimes the simplest things
get us.....glad I don't build for a living!
 
BudMan said:
Today, I had someone that I built a computer for a few weeks ago call
me. "I try to boot my computer and all I get is a INSERT SYSTEM DISK
error". Ok, maybe his HD died. This has never happened to me, but
there is a first time. So he brings it in. I try to start it and
get the same message. I check and there is no floppy in the drive,
so I put in an old Win98 disk and the thing boots to the recovery
disk screen. I check the HD directory, and all is there. Pull the
disk, restart, and get the same error message. Now I'm thinking the
board's cooked. Just then I looked at the card reader I installed on
the front of the case. Everything worked ok after I removed the
compact flash card from the card reader. Sometimes the simplest
things get us.....glad I don't build for a living!
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You could try "fdisk /mbr" from the A: prompt on the bootdisk. The boot
record might have got broken somehow.
 
Did u change the bootup options in the bios, might be trying to boot
from card reader
 
Yes, after this I did change the boot options in BIOS. This is the first
build that I have done with a built in card reader. Now instead of having a
removable drive first on the boot sequence I put the fixed disk number 1.
 
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