boot disk failure

[Guest meamjw]

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meamjw

I am using XP Home/SP3 and it had been running well until about a week ago

when I was trying to set up a LAN and hooked up an Iogear KVM. The next time

I tried to boot it got to the end of the PCI devices section and presented me

with the "Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter"

I have since found I can get it to boot with an emergency floppy and

everything works fine after that. In fact I have just been leaving the floppy

inserted and have no problems. I just want to fix it so it boots like it's

supposed to and have tried many things that have not helped one bit: 1. ran

the most complete check disk=no errors. Ran a disk diagnostic from

Seagate/Maxtor=no problems. 2. replaced the CMOS battery. 3. Unhooked power

and IDE cables, then re-connected. 4. re-arranged start order in BIOS. I

cannot get into safe boot because the boot process isn't getting that far.

I have no Windows CD because it came OEM. I do have restore CDs but don't

believe I can get Recovery Console from them. I'm afraid to even try them for

fear they may just reformat without giving me the option to say no. I'm not

even considering a reformat and re-install because I've gone through two

weeks of trying to get everything back as it was as nearly as possible and as

I said, I can boot and operate normally from the floppy. If anyone has any

ideas I would appreciate hearing them.

[Guest Kelly]

Re: boot disk failure

 

Check/change your boot order via the BIOS

 

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"meamjw" <meamjw@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> meamjw

> I am using XP Home/SP3 and it had been running well until about a week ago

> when I was trying to set up a LAN and hooked up an Iogear KVM. The next

> time

> I tried to boot it got to the end of the PCI devices section and presented

> me

> with the "Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter"

> I have since found I can get it to boot with an emergency floppy and

> everything works fine after that. In fact I have just been leaving the

> floppy

> inserted and have no problems. I just want to fix it so it boots like it's

> supposed to and have tried many things that have not helped one bit: 1.

> ran

> the most complete check disk=no errors. Ran a disk diagnostic from

> Seagate/Maxtor=no problems. 2. replaced the CMOS battery. 3. Unhooked

> power

> and IDE cables, then re-connected. 4. re-arranged start order in BIOS. I

> cannot get into safe boot because the boot process isn't getting that far.

> I have no Windows CD because it came OEM. I do have restore CDs but don't

> believe I can get Recovery Console from them. I'm afraid to even try them

> for

> fear they may just reformat without giving me the option to say no. I'm

> not

> even considering a reformat and re-install because I've gone through two

> weeks of trying to get everything back as it was as nearly as possible and

> as

> I said, I can boot and operate normally from the floppy. If anyone has any

> ideas I would appreciate hearing them.