Justh8me

Wolf, I was not saying "not that it should matter" to Randy, it was part of what he said to me. I would not say that to someone trying to help :) And yes the hard drive is found in bios and is saved Seth. And Dave, that is what I was going to try when I get home this evening to see if that will do the trick, I will let you all know in a few hours if that resolved the problem or not. Again thanks for all of the help!

Is there just one hard drive on your computer? ---- Just 1 Is it a SATA perhaps? ---- No, it is an IDE Did you save your settings when exiting the bios? Not that it should matter. ---- Yes all saved Do you have the recovery console option? ---- Yes the option is there, was going to try the FIXBOOT and FIXMBR on it when I get off of work today to see if that may help. Are all your ribbon cables secure? ---- Yes they are all secure. And yes Wolf everything is set correctly.

OK, never seen this one. I did a fresh install of xp on this hard drive. everything went fine, I deleted the existing partition and started over fresh. Formatted (full not quick) and when the install was complete I rebooted the pc changed the boot order in bios, and when it rebooted it said the press any key to boot from cdrom, I did not press anything and it went right to windows and could do anything as normal. Then I removed the xp cd and rebooted, that is when I get the error Boot Disk Failure and so on. I put the cd back in reboot and it gives the press any key to boot from cdrom again, again I do not touch anything, and right back into windows it goes like nothing is wrong. So as long as I have the cd in it works fine. Take it out, and error? I had someone tell me they had the same problem and it ended up being a bad cmos batt. I didn't think it made much since, but stranger things have happened so I changed it, still same thing. Any ideas. Thanks in advance!