XP not booting of HDD - Any ideas?

  • Thread starter Rue
  • 2 comments
  • 405 views
Rue

Rue

Apparantly...
Premium
6,311
Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR
Just formatted my harddisk and put a fresh install of XP on there. Problem is the time between memory test and hardware check to boot up is really slow (30 seconds). Not only that but WinXP won't boot from the harddisk (I have the message DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER. After inserting the WinXP disk and pressing Enter, Windows fires up without any problems including the firewall and antivirus software that I have installed.

I have tried changing the device boot up priorities in the BIOS but to no avail. Anyone have any ideas?
 
It's possible the drive has simply died. I would check it by running Ultimate Boot Disk (an iso you can burn to a cd-r with tons of system diagnostics tools. search google) and running the appropriate manufacturer hard drive analysis tool to see if the drive is in healthy condition.
 

Latest Posts

Back