Re: Disk Boot Failure, but Hard Drive is fine.

Hi abright52,

Did you replace the CPU, being stuck by lightning and did you replace
the Hard Drive Cable? All these replacements, and the problem could be in
the Hard Drive Data Cable.

Also the problem could be with the way you set up the Hard Drive.

Question: After you backed up the Hard Drive and before you installed
Windows XP Home, did you first partition the Hard Drive into two or more
partitions to allow for easy backups and later restoring the operating
system? Or if partitioned with just one partition, did you format with /s
(System) and test boot the Hard Drive? Make sure the Hard Drive boots before
loading an operating system. You will just boot to C:\. Once it boots up,
you can then reformat and reinstall Windows XP Home Edition on a NTFS File
System.

You need a Windows 98 SE Startup Floppy Disk to transfer the system. You
can't use Windows ME Startup Floppy Disk, because you will get the error you
are receiving.


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thecreator


<abright52@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a computer that I believe was struck by lightning. I had to
replace the power supply and the motherboard. I backed up the old hard
drive and started fresh.
Formatted as NTFS, XP Home installation went fine, but when I went to
restart it, I got a Disk Boot Failure message. I replaced the hard
drive with a brand new WD 40GB Drive. Reinstalled XP Home and got the
same error after restarting. I booted into Partition Magic from a
Floppy Disk and formatted the drive from there, set it up for NTFS, set
it as the active partition and installed Windows XP again, this time
from a different XP CD, just in case the original disk was causing
problems. Still getting the same error.
I swapped out the RAM, no change. I have ran the system through a few
of my diagnostic tools and everything comes up as good. I booted into
the Recovery Console......chkdsk /r came up clean, then I ran fixboot
and fixmbr. Still no boot.

If I have a bootable CD in the drive (Windows CD, Diagnostics CD, etc),
it will boot into Windows, as it should, when I don't press any key to
boot to CD. I found that quite strange, as I have never seen anything
like that in 5 years of being a computer tech.

Any ideas?



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