This computer was my brother’s (getting divorced) when his wife brought over the computer she apparently did something to it. This is the only message that we get when we power the computer up –
Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter.
Does anyone know what she could have done to the computer? How do I fix this? Someone told me that she might have deleted the hard drive how is that possible? Maybe she deleted the operating system off the computer, how do I know whats wrong and how do I fix it?
Help! When I started my computer the screen stayed black and said-Disk boot failure,insert system disk + enter?
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SourKumquats
March 21, 2010 at 10:58 pm
Yes, she probably deleted hard drive and/or operating system, just pop in any copy of a windows install cd, and find your old product key. The install cd dosnt have to be yours, as long as the key is yours. Then follow the instructions.
hope it works out!
R. M
March 21, 2010 at 11:47 pm
LOL – formatted his hard drive and got rid of all his porn and emails to his girlfriends???
That is good. Can I meet her?
Chris aka Master860
March 22, 2010 at 12:03 am
Maybe the hard drive is bad, also could be bad mother bored, had drive cable is dead, power supply no providing power to the hard drive try checking the hard drive and see if the cable is bad and replace it might solve this issue does the flash when it tells you disk boot failure? like are the words shaking if so its the mother bored. chances are the filter are blown up 1 of them or 2 or more. Also you can’t delet the harddrive if it tells you disk boot failure it faild to detect the harddrive on the computer don’t listen to those people that are telling you she deleted the harddriveyou cant erase windows from not detecting the harddrive unless you do it from the mother bored setting click f1 and enter bios setup and try looking for defult on it . and left it emty it will tell you something else, you will need to format the harddrive into a ntfs if your installing window xp.
ldouble_e
March 22, 2010 at 12:47 am
Your hard drive has probably failed. If you can get the OS to reinstall that’s great, but you have now lost all data that was stored on the Hard drive. If it won’t reinstall (i’m guessing it won’t) then you will have to buy a new hard drive. Good luck! Sorry about the loss of data I hope you had it backed up somewhere. A terrible feeling for sure.
Edit I didn’t get the rest of this question when I answered it…weird. Yeah she definitely formatted it. Depending on how she did it you could get most of it if not all of it back. You would need a second computer and a data recovery program. Glary utilities offers one for free in it’s program.
Johnyboy
March 22, 2010 at 1:10 am
Hmmm this is tricky. I would first check if there is still a hard drive(HD) in the computer. If there is then when the computer starts booting press f2,f9,f10 or others and try to get into an advanced screen. If they work then try out different configs until something works. If all else fails then buy an External Hard Drive enclosure and take out the HD place it in the Enclosure and see if with another pc you can view the hard drive contents if any. This will be helpful to remove any important data before a system restore.
Good luck. Hopefully this will help:)
Colin
March 22, 2010 at 1:18 am
i am not for sure on this but you may need to reinstall the operating system and the disk drives. If she erased the hard drive you lost all of your files and the operating system. Just place the operating system disk in the tray and turn your computer off then back on then just follow the instructions.
Hope this helps
wiztek
March 22, 2010 at 1:27 am
Either the soon to be EX removed the hard drive, she removed the Operating System from the hard drive or the hard drive is pissed about the divorse and has failed.
You would need a Windows install disc to try a reformat and reinstall of Windows to determine which one is the culprit.
baltog
March 22, 2010 at 2:24 am
Simplest trick
Check if there is a hard drive
either open it or check the Bios:
if yes : Reinstall Operating system/ Restore Disc
if no: Get a new hard drive and Reinstall everything