tina79

Have just tried the above (though it simply said hard drive not HHD-0) but no success just the same boot failure message :(

Hi do you mean just the new hard drive? if so thats the only one connected i took the old one out, no floppys or cds in either I am not sure how i could reinstall or reformat the drive as it wont do anything after the disc boot failure message .. i can get into set up/ bios but no idea what to do there other than change the boot order which i have tried? is there any way to do these as when i insert the vista disc it just says no hd detected?

Hi guys A few days ago my pc suddenly displayed a ''disc boot failure, please insert system disc'' message on the black screen, tried a few things but no joy inclduing trying to instal vista again but it did not recognise any hd ..so i decided the hd must have died and ordered a new one with a new cable just in case it was that (the smaller cable only) anyway i fitted the new hard drive which is way above my pc knowledge, booted the pc up and same message appeared (disc boot failure) so i put the windows disc in and it proceeded to instal vista just fine (i did nothing other put the vista disc in , no format etc nothing) installs fine and works like a dream for about 24 hours but then i go out for a bit and the pc must have crashed or restarted and the dreaded boot disc message was back and from there on in wont do any anything when i try and install windows just says it cant find the hd any ideas people??? some specs pc is a mesh 4 year old roughly old hd was a maxtor 300gb sata new one is a wd 500gb