Help NEED A BOOT CD IN THE DRIVE TO START WINDOWS!!!!

[Madeinedmundston]

I need to have a bootable cd or dvd in my drive to be able to load xp or vista....otherwise it says ((error boot disk)......


Help please!!!!!!

[Squeetard]

Check your boot device priority in the Bios. Make sure your Hard drive is the first boot device.

Otherwise, boot to your CD and run a diskscan on the hard drive. May be kaput.

[Madeinedmundston]

1.WHEN I CHANGE 1.DVD 2.HDD TO 1.HDD TO 2.DVD IT ONLY SAYS BOOT DRIVE FAILURE.....BUT WHEN A BOOT CD IS IN THE DRIVE...NO PROBLEM TO BOOT :s

[Squeetard]

check your connections.

Boot to cd command console and run chkdsk c: /f

I'm afraid though its looking like your HDD is broken.

[Madeinedmundston]

thanks!!!! anyway.....maybe it's good time to buy the 640 gb from WD!!

[Squeetard]

Good man, you back everything up and a broken HD is a time of joy!

[Eldonko]

Did you try a repair on the OS? Could be OS issue and not HD. Worth a shot anyway.

[punk_zappa]

Originally Posted by Madeinedmundston

1.WHEN I CHANGE 1.DVD 2.HDD TO 1.HDD TO 2.DVD IT ONLY SAYS BOOT DRIVE FAILURE.....BUT WHEN A BOOT CD IS IN THE DRIVE...NO PROBLEM TO BOOT :s

Have you tried to boot first to the HDD that has your OS loaded? Put HDD to #1 instead of DVD.

[Shadowmeph]

what is the exact error this would help
is it the mbr ( I think thats what its called)

[Squeetard]

It's in the first sentence of his one sentence post.