Boot drive failure

[Kiro-San]

On Thursday Windows update prompted me to download IE8. I don't use IE very much but I figured it would be worth having the latest version. After it downloaded and installed I rebooted my PC and was greeted with: Disk Boot Failure Please insert boot disk and press enter.

The boot order of the drives is unchanged but I've manually selected the boot drive at start up with no luck. I've run Hitachi's DFT advanced scan on all three hard drives on my PC (twice) and all of them come back 0x00 (no errors/problems). Today I grabbed a copy of Knoppix 6 and I can access the boot drive in that without a problem. Windows is installed on one of the 7K250 250GB hard drives. Hardware is:

Asus Striker Extreme
Intel QX6700 Stock
Video card(s) brand & model
2GB Dominator PC8500
Gainward SLI 8800 GTX
HGST 1TB 7K1000
2 x HGST 250GB 7K250

 

[95thrifles]

make sure you have the right SATA/RAID configuration in your bios, I run RAIDed drives myself and the first time i did a clrcmos and it defaulted to nonraid i got same msg and it took me ages to realise, D'Oh
Cant think why the setting would have changed but just check to make sure

 

[Kiro-San]

Booted to the recovery console and ran chkdsk before giving fix* commands a go. Qucik chkdsk found nothing but chkdsk /p found some errors. Uses chkdsk /r to fix them and the system booted straight after. Going to backup my boot partition to an external drive now. Also the HDD is pretty old so I'm going to replace it with a newer model. Might just replace both the 250GB drives in my computer as prices are so cheap at the moment.