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Offline felixnine

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disk boot failure
« on: March 01, 2004, 11:19:38 PM »
my roommate had some weird stuff going on with his computer, so he had to reformat. i hooked up his disk to my computer and immediately after i reboot, i get "disk boot failure". i figured i had just forgotten to set the jumper on the new drive, but that wasn't the problem. i ended up having to use the win xp recovery console and use the "fixboot" command. so after removing this new drive, i recently restart and i get the same thing: "disk boot failure". this happens each time i restart my computer and each time i must use the win xp recovery console in order to boot. why don't the boot settings persist? i really don't know what's going on. does this have something to do with the fact that i have 2 sata drives? i'm stumped.

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andrew

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disk boot failure
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2004, 08:50:19 AM »
Did you use fixmbr too? Maybe the partition table is the cause. Use a partition soft to fix it.