Disk boot failure !!

bennyboy2606 · 5 Mar 2009 at 17:43

Hey,

Right recently my brother's OS messed up, so I formatted his drive, and attempted to reinstall vista from a CD. When I got to the place of installing the drive, it didn't show up, and when I scanned I was told to insert device drivers, but I don't have any discs for the hard drive, so i passed. I then connected the drive to my machine, and installed vista without troubles, booted onto that disc from my machine to make sure it worked, and hey presto, it worked.

So then I reconnect the drive to my brothers machine, And I am faced with the error "Disk boot failure, Insert disc and press enter". I don't know why this problem happens. I am also pretty sure that the BIOS is not picking up the drive, as when I went to hard drive priority, it wasn't in the list. Also when I connected my own drive to the machine, I had no luck still.

I really don't know what I can do to resolve this issue so any help would be much appreciated.

Kind regards
Ben

Drive details

Model Number: WD2500JD

http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1028

w3bbo · 5 Mar 2009 at 17:56

If it's not picking up the drive then it certainly wont boot from it. Have you tried a different cable (both power and SATA/IDE)?

JonJ678 · 5 Mar 2009 at 17:59

Few thoughts. Installing vista on one machine, then moving the hard drive to another, is basically asking for problems.

Are both machines set to enhanced ide mode/ahci? They really need to be the same as each other.

You don't want hard drive priority, but rather 'hard disk drives'. If youre motherboard matches mine at least. Hard disk priority only ever lists one hard drive for me, and my computer keeps on trying to boot from a data drive. Can you hit f8 to choose what to boot from?

I think whats going to happen is you'll manage to persuade the computer to boot from the right drive, then vista is going to throw a hissy fit. What motherboard is your brother on? I think the hard drive is fine

bennyboy2606 · 5 Mar 2009 at 18:08

http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/advent/pc/t9201.htm

that is his pc

Motherboard TG 865PE

formby · 5 Mar 2009 at 18:08

yes sometimes you can swap motherboards and vista does not bat an eyelid and sometimes its BSOD CITY.

bennyboy2606 · 5 Mar 2009 at 18:10

Its not a BSOD of death though

at least then I could get some error codes

bennyboy2606 · 5 Mar 2009 at 18:21

Also note, that when I press F8, the hard drive is not on the list, just "Boot-able addon cards"

formby · 5 Mar 2009 at 18:55

have you tried OPT1 position on jumper

bennyboy2606 · 5 Mar 2009 at 19:02

Yup tried that

formby · 5 Mar 2009 at 19:18

how about resetting cmos or refash bios the drive sounds ok but maybe the sata controller is knackerd on the motherboard

bennyboy2606 · 5 Mar 2009 at 21:21

Tried resetting the CMOS no luck.

ChrisLX200 · 5 Mar 2009 at 22:02

It's a SATA-I drive so that should be OK. Are you sure the BIOS settings are right? (interface enabled, plugged into right port etc.) Plus, you're trying to install Vista on a machine with 512MB of RAM? - I dont think it will install, and if it did you'll wish you hadn't bothered trying.

bennyboy2606 · 5 Mar 2009 at 23:06

Its had vista on it before, home basic, ran fine no problems at all.