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Disk Boot Failure. Insert System Disk And Press Enter I've been having this problem for a few days now and I was wondering if anyone could help me out with this issue.
I have the ASUS P5N-D motherboard and after installing Windows (and formatting all the drives) my computer tells me "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER."
So when this pops up, I found that if I leave the Windows XP CD in, it asks to boot from CD (which I just let it run without pressing enter) and Windows starts up normally. I changed the boot sequence so it goes HDD, CD, then REMOVABLE... but it didn't seem to solve anything.
I have 3x 250GB WD Caviars (all OEM from Newegg) and from what I've seen they read/write/function normally in Windows. Two of the HDDs are set in RAID 0 and in the boot sequence, this is the first HDD listed (with the backup being second).
I tried taking out the battery on the MB and put it back in to reset the CMOS as has been suggested. Now instead of loading Windows while having the CD in, it loads the XP installation CD instead of the OS itself.
With no luck finding any solutions, I totally reformatted everything -- I deleted and reinstalled two of my HDDs and put them back in a RAID 0 setup and partitioned that setup to a C/D type of deal like before. Installed Windows and got the same issue.
This is really frustrating me because my roommate built the same exact build (except he's using the equivalent Seagate 250GB HDDs). He's thinking that it may be a problem with the HDDs, but so far it seems like all three of them are working fine. Again after reformatting, getting the same error, and putting the Windows XP CD back in; it loads Windows. Though this is nice... I'd like the system to start without having the CD in there.
I could really use the help as I dropped a good 1600+ on this system?
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I would suggest trying to install the OS with only a single HDD installed, non-raid. If this works flawlessly then at least it gives you a baseline to start troubleshooting your raid setup. Something wrong with the raid controller, perhaps? Hope this helps.
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I am pretty new at this (this is my first home built system and most of my knowledge comes from the hours of research I put into each part before putting the build together) so could you tell me what I could do to check the raid controllers? Basically what my roommate did is copy the files that the ASUS drivers CD gave him and put it on a floppy. Worked flawlessly for him so this is why he thinks it's the actual HDDs.
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I had nearly the same exact problem with my Asus P5ND2-SLI a while back.
I had just installed a second SATA 300 GB hard drive. After rebooting, I got the "Disk Boot Failure" message. I also found that just the presence of the WinXP disk in the CD drive would allow the computer to boot normally. I didn't have to boot from the CD, just have it in the drive. If I disconnected the new hard drive, everything worked just fine as before. Finally after much searching, I was able to solve the problem by updating the motherboard BIOS from the Asus website. If you haven't done so already, I'd try that.
Hope this helps.
As a side note, I also experienced an intermittent problem with WinXP hanging during boot. I finally found that if I did not install the chipset drivers that came with the motherboard, the problem never resurfaced.
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I had a few problems like this before, but it was my fault because i didn’t check my jumpers on the cd drive and the hard drives, making sure they were set to cable select... wait, your using sata drives.
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