I started my media center PC today and got a 'Disk Boot Failure. Insert System Disk And Press Enter' (or something along those lines) error.
I put in the Windows 7 disk to do a repair, only got to the first dialog box where you choose a language, but because the rez is so low I couldnt see other options, so not knowing how to get in to repair mode I restarted.To my surprise Windows starts normally. However if I try to play a movie, a few minutes into it, it freezes. I can close the window, but the system becomes very unresponsive and I cant open any files.
So I've restarted a few times and roughly half the time I get Disk Boot Failure.The BIOS always manages to detect all drives. I tried the Windows 7 disk again and actually got into the repair menu. I chose a 'diagnose and repair automatically' option (the first one) and it said it cant fix the problem. The error was Bad Hard Disk.
So my question is, is the drive definitely physically damaged or could it be something like the MBR that needs fixing or a matter of running a scandisk?
Edit: When I tried runnign a scandisk, Windows offered to schedule it for the next reboot because it couldnt run it there and then (understandable) but after restart it never actually happened.
I put in the Windows 7 disk to do a repair, only got to the first dialog box where you choose a language, but because the rez is so low I couldnt see other options, so not knowing how to get in to repair mode I restarted.To my surprise Windows starts normally. However if I try to play a movie, a few minutes into it, it freezes. I can close the window, but the system becomes very unresponsive and I cant open any files.
So I've restarted a few times and roughly half the time I get Disk Boot Failure.The BIOS always manages to detect all drives. I tried the Windows 7 disk again and actually got into the repair menu. I chose a 'diagnose and repair automatically' option (the first one) and it said it cant fix the problem. The error was Bad Hard Disk.
So my question is, is the drive definitely physically damaged or could it be something like the MBR that needs fixing or a matter of running a scandisk?
Edit: When I tried runnign a scandisk, Windows offered to schedule it for the next reboot because it couldnt run it there and then (understandable) but after restart it never actually happened.
