ragebflame
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Hi,
This problem is driving me insane. It all began about 3 days ago. The last thing i can remember installing is AVG antiirus (free edition). restarting my computer and getting ''disk boot failure, please insert system key to continue''.
pc spec:
asus a8n-sli deluxe mobo
1gig ram
samsung p120 250gig X2
amd x2 4400.
Windows pro
I inserted the windows cd and restarted. The pc booted fine into windows but i did get some errors with explorer crashing. I ran a trusted Anti virus software which showed up clean, so i moved all my movies etc onto my second had drive which i was just using as storage, and i tried repair windows through cd, which didnt solve the problem.
I then tried windows restore, didnt help.
I tried ASR and that didnt help either.
I tried recovery console and fixmbr, fixboot, bootcfg etc. No luck.
Finally i decided to reformat and install windows fresh. install went fine but when i tried to boot without cd after installation was finished i got the same "disk boot failure" error.
Im sure that the drive isint dead as the BIOS sees it ok and i can use the partition on it no problem after i boot from cd.
Getting annoyed i said id try fdisk to see if the partition was active. It wasent so i set it as active. now i get the "ntldr missing, press ctrl+alt+delete to restart".
Just to be sure i installed windows on my second hard drive but that also gets the "disk boot failure" error. I am starting to think that the motherboard is the problem as the second hard drive is only a month old and the first is about 9 months old.
This has really stumped me. I hope you guys can help me. i dont want to go buying a new system
This problem is driving me insane. It all began about 3 days ago. The last thing i can remember installing is AVG antiirus (free edition). restarting my computer and getting ''disk boot failure, please insert system key to continue''.
pc spec:
asus a8n-sli deluxe mobo
1gig ram
samsung p120 250gig X2
amd x2 4400.
Windows pro
I inserted the windows cd and restarted. The pc booted fine into windows but i did get some errors with explorer crashing. I ran a trusted Anti virus software which showed up clean, so i moved all my movies etc onto my second had drive which i was just using as storage, and i tried repair windows through cd, which didnt solve the problem.
I then tried windows restore, didnt help.
I tried ASR and that didnt help either.
I tried recovery console and fixmbr, fixboot, bootcfg etc. No luck.
Finally i decided to reformat and install windows fresh. install went fine but when i tried to boot without cd after installation was finished i got the same "disk boot failure" error.
Im sure that the drive isint dead as the BIOS sees it ok and i can use the partition on it no problem after i boot from cd.
Getting annoyed i said id try fdisk to see if the partition was active. It wasent so i set it as active. now i get the "ntldr missing, press ctrl+alt+delete to restart".
Just to be sure i installed windows on my second hard drive but that also gets the "disk boot failure" error. I am starting to think that the motherboard is the problem as the second hard drive is only a month old and the first is about 9 months old.
This has really stumped me. I hope you guys can help me. i dont want to go buying a new system
