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User Name · 01-10-2004, 08:16 PM

This morning, I turned on my system, and while it was going through POST, it couldn't detect my C drive, and said the following message: "System Boot Disk Failure", or something very close. I almost pissed in my pants. It kept happening. I tried to use the XP Recovery Console to repair the boot sector, but to no avail. The BIOS couldn't detect the hard drive either. Then, I resetted the BIOS, but again, the same. I then formatted the hard drive, which was also innefective. So I opened up the case, and switched the IDE channels. I plugged the cable that was connected to my hard drives and put it in the slot that was occupied by the cable connecting CD-ROM drives, and vice versa. My computer went through post fine, and both the HDs and the CD-ROMs were detected, but then there was something about "NTLDR not found", but I'm not sure if that was before or after the cable changing. I then installed Windows 2000 Pro, and all was well once again, except for a minor incident when the screen turned black while the computer was booting and almost at the desktop. It restarted by itself, and then booted just fine.
Can anyone please explain the cause of the "System Boot Disk Failure" and how to prevent such occurences, and if the black screen and self-reboot were related to this problem.

Specs:
Athlon XP 2500+ Barton
ATI Radeon 9000 non-Pro
256MB of cheap DDR SDRAM
Asus A7V8X-X
IDE channel 1 master: Western Digital 80gb 7200 RPM HD (only 3 months old)
Slave: 8gb Seagate from an older Compaq system.
IDE channel 2 master: Acer 48/24/48 CD-RW DVD Combo (I think it's made by Lite-On)
Slave: Lite-On 16/12/40 CD-RW
OS: Windows XP Pro at the time of the incident, Windows 2000 Pro now.

I apologize for the length of this post, but I needed a lot of space to give all the details.

01-10-2004, 08:16 PM	#1 (permalink)
User Name Banned Location: Urf	"System Boot Disk Failure" This morning, I turned on my system, and while it was going through POST, it couldn't detect my C drive, and said the following message: "System Boot Disk Failure", or something very close. I almost pissed in my pants. It kept happening. I tried to use the XP Recovery Console to repair the boot sector, but to no avail. The BIOS couldn't detect the hard drive either. Then, I resetted the BIOS, but again, the same. I then formatted the hard drive, which was also innefective. So I opened up the case, and switched the IDE channels. I plugged the cable that was connected to my hard drives and put it in the slot that was occupied by the cable connecting CD-ROM drives, and vice versa. My computer went through post fine, and both the HDs and the CD-ROMs were detected, but then there was something about "NTLDR not found", but I'm not sure if that was before or after the cable changing. I then installed Windows 2000 Pro, and all was well once again, except for a minor incident when the screen turned black while the computer was booting and almost at the desktop. It restarted by itself, and then booted just fine. Can anyone please explain the cause of the "System Boot Disk Failure" and how to prevent such occurences, and if the black screen and self-reboot were related to this problem. Specs: Athlon XP 2500+ Barton ATI Radeon 9000 non-Pro 256MB of cheap DDR SDRAM Asus A7V8X-X IDE channel 1 master: Western Digital 80gb 7200 RPM HD (only 3 months old) Slave: 8gb Seagate from an older Compaq system. IDE channel 2 master: Acer 48/24/48 CD-RW DVD Combo (I think it's made by Lite-On) Slave: Lite-On 16/12/40 CD-RW OS: Windows XP Pro at the time of the incident, Windows 2000 Pro now. I apologize for the length of this post, but I needed a lot of space to give all the details. Last edited by User Name; 01-10-2004 at 08:38 PM..