"DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"

Lonz · 17 Sep 2007 at 16:14

I've got Vista Ultimate on one Hard drive and and recently reverted to XP Home on another hard drive.

I used the VistaBootPro prorgam whilst on XP. I assumed I did everything correct from http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/about88231.html , ignoring the partition stuff, due to it being a completely separate hard drive. However when I rebooted, instead of getting a dual-boot OS choice screen, it booted straight into Vista.

I changed my Hard drive boot priorities in the BIOS and get the message "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER".

Any ideas what I've done wrong?

Muffin` · 17 Sep 2007 at 16:23

what happens when vista drive isnt in?

Lonz · 17 Sep 2007 at 16:26

I get that message ^

Muffin` · 17 Sep 2007 at 16:52

Got access to another PC? Stick it in see if it boots?

Stickin setup disk - restor boot files ?

Lankio · 17 Sep 2007 at 17:09

I had a similar problem which also inculded my machine not booting unless the Vista DVD was in the drive.

To fix it I had to change the boot order of my 3 hard disks. If I removed the Vista drive I got the same error message and with the drive in I could only boot to Vista. Reordering the hard disk boot order fixed the problem.

Muffin` · 17 Sep 2007 at 17:10

True they could be ordered wrong.

How many drives do you have which are SATA/IDE?

Lonz · 17 Sep 2007 at 17:29

I just have the 2 hard drives, both in SATA.

Red and White · 17 Sep 2007 at 19:31

dunno mate but you will get a better answer in here than you will over the road

Lonz · 17 Sep 2007 at 19:32

Haha!

how random · 17 Sep 2007 at 20:53

I have had something similar, you have to change the order in which it trys to boot to the hard drives as said by Lankio.

masterk · 17 Sep 2007 at 21:44

Yeah cant you just run a Fixboot command in the repair console? Should sort you out nicely. Does that work with Vista?

Normally its recommended that you install the OS's for multiple boot in order of when they were released, otherwise you get this problem. So Fixboot should sort you out.