Hello ladies and gents. I am having an issue with my computer running
vista ultimate x64. I have an ASUS M2N-SLI motherboard, 2 one-gig sticks
of Patiot DDR2 800MHz RAM, a Pioneer DVD-RW optical drive, a nVidia
GeForce 8600 video card, an AMD Athalon dual core processor, onboard
sound/networking, and two hard drives: one being 160 gb, and the other
being 1 tb. Okay, now onto the problem. I keep getting the disk boot
error, "DISK BOOT FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER". This is
after a plethora of previous problems. I was playing World of Warcraft
two days prior, and the computer just froze out of the blue. This was
not a common occurance, so I just rebooted the machine. It kept coming
up with a "Windows failed to start due to a recent hardware or software
change" etc etc. You press enter to get to the two options, either vista
or the memory diagnostics. I tried vista and it would just go back to
the original, then I hit the diagnostic and it didn't help. I turned the
computer off and fiddled witht the connections to the hard drives. When
I booted it up, I was estatic that it went into windows. But it would
load up the toolbar and stop loading. After a few more attempts to get
it up and running, it didn't change, except it sometimes loaded up my
background and desktop icons as well. The repair utility said everthing
was fine. I decided there was nothing I needed to save that badly, and
reformatted the computer and reinstalled Vista. It would install, load
up, and as soon as the comuter restarted at all, it would give a disk
boot error. I've reinstalled vista on different hard drives multiple
times, and it always gives a disk boot error. Anybody have a better idea
than me?


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Duall

Duall;1118865 Wrote:
Hello ladies and gents. I am having an issue with my computer running
vista ultimate x64. I have an ASUS M2N-SLI motherboard, 2 one-gig sticks
of Patiot DDR2 800MHz RAM, a Pioneer DVD-RW optical drive, a nVidia
GeForce 8600 video card, an AMD Athalon dual core processor, onboard
sound/networking, and two hard drives: one being 160 gb, and the other
being 1 tb. Okay, now onto the problem. I keep getting the disk boot
error, "DISK BOOT FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER". This is
after a plethora of previous problems. I was playing World of Warcraft
two days prior, and the computer just froze out of the blue. This was
not a common occurance, so I just rebooted the machine. It kept coming
up with a "Windows failed to start due to a recent hardware or software
change" etc etc. You press enter to get to the two options, either vista
or the memory diagnostics. I tried vista and it would just go back to
the original, then I hit the diagnostic and it didn't help. I turned the
computer off and fiddled witht the connections to the hard drives. When
I booted it up, I was estatic that it went into windows. But it would
load up the toolbar and stop loading. After a few more attempts to get
it up and running, it didn't change, except it sometimes loaded up my
background and desktop icons as well. The repair utility said everthing
was fine. I decided there was nothing I needed to save that badly, and
reformatted the computer and reinstalled Vista. It would install, load
up, and as soon as the comuter restarted at all, it would give a disk
boot error. I've reinstalled vista on different hard drives multiple
times, and it always gives a disk boot error. Anybody have a better idea
than me?


I'm sorry. Never mind. In the BIOS, it was set to boot from the
opposite hard drive. Fixed it.


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Duall

Hello, I'm having a similar problem with an eMachine with Vista home
premium. It happened after I installed some software from Verizon. I've
since uninstalled it, but I'm still getting the disk failure error.
Right now I'm doing a memory check, which I wasn't able to do from the
recovery option; I had to run it before it began loading Vista. When I'm
in the recovery tool, the startup repair doesn't run at all. It tells me
I don't have a hard drive, or that it can't find it; it seems to think
my C: drive is a removable drive. I've run chkdsk several times, and it
says it's repairing files and indexes. I'm able to get into Vista using
the boot disk, but today the PC rebooted itself, then I got the blue
screen. Since then, I either have to use safe mode, or if I go in
normally, I get the blue screen again. Does anyone have any ideas? I
can't do a complete reinstall because I don't have backups of several
important files. Thanks.


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