I bought a pc from a guy down the street and he said he cleared everything off. I turn it on and it says disk boot failure, insert system disk and hit enter. I have tried a windows 98 disk and a window xp home edition and it comes back with the same message. What now?
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12-21-2008
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12-21-2008
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Re: disk boot failure
Welcome.............
Take the PC back to "the guy down the street" and get your money back or get him to make it work. Sorry sounds stolen!
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12-23-2008
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Re: disk boot failure
I must agree with elpmek here.
That sounds a bit off. |
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12-23-2008
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Re: disk boot failure
i had a similar problem to this once, i formated the disk as NTFS with the windows xp install disk ( full format, not quick ) and it sorted it out.
you've probably tried it but if not it might help |
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02-11-2009
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Re: disk boot failure
I have also faced this problem few days back. somebody suggested me to set boot order in every conceivable way. I did and solved my problem.
Thanks Tech Tiger1 |
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02-27-2009
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Re: disk boot failure
Hello,just posting to see if you need further assistance.
Or do you consider your thread as Answerd/Resolved/Fixed? Please post back if you need any further help. Jelly Bean.
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08-21-2009
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Re: disk boot failure
If he had cleared the pc the disk boot error is what I would expect as there is nothing on the disk. Set the pc to boot from cd then boot up with the win98 or xp disk and install as normal creating a new partitions if required(windows will do this to its default)
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