Disk boot failure - Insert system disk and press Enter

[Guest Kage_no_King]

Hi, i have a really big problem my secondary hard drive, it stoped working some days ago after i formated my principal hard drive to re-install Windows XP Professional, i didn't do anything different from the usual except for the fact that i deleted a 9 MB partition on my principal hard drive to just have one partition.After i installed XP i was expecting the system to recognize my secondary hard drive but it never happened.

 

The secondary drive was fine before i re-installed XP on my principal hard drive, i know it because i was checking all the data inside it (the secondary hard drive had Windows xp installed too, so i could boot it if the principal hard drive gave me problems).

 

Now when i try to boot using my secondary hard drive i get this message ''Disk boot failure - Insert system disk and press Enter''.

 

I've already tried this:

*Check all the cables

*Update the drivers

*Check the BIOS sequence

 

BTW,the BIOS recognizes the hard drive but Windows XP doesn't recognizes it as a logical drive.

 

I''l add some pictures so you can understand it better:

 

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AS YOU CAN SEE THIS SOFTWARE RECOGNIZES THE DRIVE AS A PHYSICAL DRIVE

 

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I EVEN PERFORMED A 10 HOUR EXHAUSTIVE ANALYSIS WITH THAT SOFTWARE (THE ONE RECOMMENDED BY THE MANUFACTURER) TO SEE IF IT HAD ANY ERRORS AND THESE ARE THE RESULTS

 

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IT'S EVEN RECOGNICED HERE

 

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BUT YOU CAN'T ACCESS TO IT

 

My PC:

- OS : Windows Xp Professional SP3

- Hard Drives: 2x Western Digital Caviar Blue 110 GB

- RAM: 2 GB DDR2

- Motherboard: Foxconn P4M800P7MA

- CPU: Intel Pentium D

 

Please i really need your help i had 50GB of data that is priceless to me TT_TT

[Dalo Harkin]

From the sounds of what you are saying the drive was formatted in either RAID (mirrored or striped)

 

Either way then the array would have to be rebuilt (this is not an easy process on RAID 0 (striped) but can be done on RAID 1 (mirrored)

When you used to access the drive (before the reformat) did it show as one disk?

[Guest Kage_no_King]

From the sounds of what you are saying the drive was formatted in either RAID (mirrored or striped)

 

Either way then the array would have to be rebuilt (this is not an easy process on RAID 0 (striped) but can be done on RAID 1 (mirrored)

When you used to access the drive (before the reformat) did it show as one disk?

 

Sorry i don't get very well the question but before either of the drives showed themselves as independent hard drives in My PC (C:/ & E:/). BTW i think the situation has change because now only the BIOS recognizes the second Hard Drive and now it appears like ''WD ROM MODEL HAWK'' (or something like that).

[Dalo Harkin]

It could be a number of things, the drive could have been partitioned to show as another physical drive (still using RAID technology) or could be 2 disks again 1 as the C:/ and 1 E:/

If you can see one then the only thing to get windows to recognise the other disk is a format using disk management, but you WILL lose the data on it.

 

If you have access to another PC I would add the HDD and then try and access it on that and burn any files to DVD-+R or onto an external drive.

[Guest Kage_no_King]

It could be a number of things, the drive could have been partitioned to show as another physical drive (still using RAID technology) or could be 2 disks again 1 as the C:/ and 1 E:/

If you can see one then the only thing to get windows to recognise the other disk is a format using disk management, but you WILL lose the data on it.

 

If you have access to another PC I would add the HDD and then try and access it on that and burn any files to DVD-+R or onto an external drive.

 

I had the chance to install it into another PC but these were the results

 

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[Guest Kage_no_King]

BTW, thanks for all your help i really appreciate your attention to my problem ;)

[RandyL]

I'm wondering if a picture of what you have in disk management might help. It might give a clue.

[maynardvdm]

Hi

 

Can you see the second hard drive in the BIOS when you put it in the "other" PC?

Also give a picture of Disk Management as Randy suggested.

[Guest Kage_no_King]

Here's the picture:

 

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BTW the BIOS does recognizes the 2nd Hard Drive because i can even select the one that i want to boot first on the boot settings.

[RandyL]

That is strange that the BIOS on YOUR computer detects the drive but it does not show in disk management. What about the "other" computer?

 

Dalo if it was a RAID setup shouldn't disk management show the drives in a different color?

 

I don't have any ideas or knowledge on this. I'll leave it with the others. But it is strange.

[Dalo Harkin]

The BIOS just detects physical devices connected to the board with DATA and POWER cables.

Windows in order to recognise them they need to be formatted and usable (which is why when you connect a new drive you need to go into disk management and activate the drive.

 

The problem here is that the user has no idea if they were configured as RAID at one point (if they were then the data will not be able to be recovered) if they werent then by adding the drive to another PC the files should show and then moved/burned to media etc