Disk Boot Failure. Insert System Disk And Press Enter???

[rUfUnKy]

my computer has been acticing funny lately. Gradually the system boggs down. I Would click on things on the screen, and 60 seconds later they would begin to respond. I tried Ctrl-Alt-Del a few times, with the same response. All this time, the hard drive LED was flashing in a slow, regular rhythmical pattern. Eventually the outline of a window or program would slowly began to appear,well last night I decided to reboot after my computer bogged down to a stand still. When I did
The BIOS did its booting work as usual. When it went to load the OS, the hard drive LED flickered but then stopped and remained constanty lit.
and the screen read
Verifying DMI pool data.....
Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM :
DISK BOOT FAILURE. INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.
I've been having these bogging down problems for a few months now I origonaly thought it was the result of my ram being overworked (so I put every thing back to defaults)This is the second time in the last 2 months that I had to format because my os would not start.another thing the last time I formated and repartitioned i set up windows 98 on c and window XP on D but when my computer started partition D was showing up as F ??????? I've now decided to format once again and get this its a 60 gig HDD and its been 11 hours and my format is only at 67 percent!!!! I'm pulling my hair out!!My guess is its the HDD..any suggestions

[Krieger]

you might have bad sectors. you might want to partition to resonable size pieces then run a scandisk on them(a full scan). Might help you. I had this problem, then I found out that a couple 100k of data was bad(brand new drive a replacment for anther that die. may be sending it back too). I got all kinds of strange errors before

[rUfUnKy]

Originally posted by Krieger
you might have bad sectors. you might want to partition to resonable size pieces then run a scandisk on them(a full scan). Might help you. I had this problem, then I found out that a couple 100k of data was bad(brand new drive a replacment for anther that die. may be sending it back too). I got all kinds of strange errors before LOL,Yah thats exactly what I'm doing now.I stopped the outragously long format (that was obveously stuck :rolleyes: ) and did a quick format now I've got 14 min left for my OS to finish installing ..and who knows how long to do a full scan disk...

[Krieger]

if you partition your drive into 10-15 gig partitions you have the long wait. just a bit of advice.

[Monaco]

Sounds to me like your Hard drive is having problems. The only reason a scandisk would take 11 hours is if the drive had major errors in every sector, which is almost unheard of, or had a mechanical problem. So I'd bet there is a physical problem with the drive itself.

If you can, replace the HD with another.

[rUfUnKy]

Originally posted by Monster of Rock
Sounds to me like your Hard drive is having problems. The only reason a scandisk would take 11 hours is if the drive had major errors in every sector, which is almost unheard of, or had a mechanical problem. So I'd bet there is a physical problem with the drive itself.

If you can, replace the HD with another. No A full format was taking that long not a scandisk..Scan disk seems to be going fine but it did find and replace bad clusters in \pagerfile.sys. when verifying file data..Im at about 53 percent of the last stage of scan disk now so its going pretty fast..One question though does windows use your swap files to start?If thats the case then it would make sence why it wouldn't go past the DMI screen seeing the bad clusters were found in the \pagerfile.sys.

[David]

I had this problem when I was mucking about, going to use an old 1.2giger to store my swap files. I plugged it in and the 1.2 was dead. Rebooted after taking out the drive, and got a similar message. Double checked my cables and boot order and it worked. I did also try fdisking my MBR but I don't know if it was that that made it work?

[rUfUnKy]

Originally posted by PenguinFreak
I had this problem when I was mucking about, going to use an old 1.2giger to store my swap files. I plugged it in and the 1.2 was dead. Rebooted after taking out the drive, and got a similar message. Double checked my cables and boot order and it worked. I did also try fdisking my MBR but I don't know if it was that that made it work? Yah,I also tried MBR fdisk switched around the drive boot order and then tried just clearing CMOS..also many other restore features .none of the above worked..when I booted from a cd it couldn't even tell weather the partitions were fat or NTFS it just said unknown or something like that....:(

[David]

Try a different HDD?

Perhaps the HD has nearly died?

PF