Respawning Boot Disk Error

AlphaTrinityAlphaTrinity North Wales, PA
edited May 2007 in Science & Tech
Hey guys,
I made some hardware changes yesterday, and when I went to start up my computer I got one of those "internal boot disk error, insert system recovery disk and press enter" messages. I went into the windows repair console and ran fixboot and fixmbr, and after that I was able to boot into Windows XP just fine (although my Vista partition disappeared..not a big deal). I thought everything would be fine, but this morning when I booted up, I had the same message. I did fixboot and fixmbr once again, and it worked. I assume that my system will continue to act in this manner, and I was wondering if somebody had a fix for this. I'm hoping my hard drive didn't go bad..it's barely 1.5 years old. It's a Seagate sata drive. Windows XP Pro SP2.
Thanks for any assistance.

Comments

  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited May 2007
    1) What hardware changes did you make?

    2) I'd run the tests from Seagate for your hard drive.

    3) :)
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2007
    Download, burn the image to and run DFT: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT

    Run the advance test. Failure codes 0x70 or 0x72 mean you must replace your drive.
  • AlphaTrinityAlphaTrinity North Wales, PA
    edited May 2007
    Something I just found out that really threw me for a loop. If I have the winxp cd in my cd drive..my system will boot just fine..if it's not in then it will give me the boot disk failure error. Strangest thing I have ever heard of.

    Prof:
    1. Eh..not really hardware..just a new heatsink, some fans, and some wire management.
    2. I am looking into Seagate tests right after this reply
    3. I can't do that yet :(

    Thrax:
    When I went to make a boot disk with that program I got the attached message
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2007
    Burn the CD image version.
  • AlphaTrinityAlphaTrinity North Wales, PA
    edited May 2007
    Both the Seagate DOS CD and the Hitachi DOS CD boot..but all they do is have me enter the month, then the time, then it gives me an A:/> prompt.
    I don't even have an A drive, the CDs were both put in the G drive I believe. I'm a DOS n00b btw.
  • AlphaTrinityAlphaTrinity North Wales, PA
    edited May 2007
    bump?
    (can we do that here? :confused: )
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2007
    Connect a different CD-ROM and boot from that; there's no reason why none of those discs shouldn't work.
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