Non-System Disk, Press any key

[robinbredin]

Hi, What it is. I was on the Seagate web site, and downloaded this utitity ms-sd1a, which checks for updates to your drive. When it bootup an application is supposed to open, but it does not. What happens now, when the Dell splash screen appears, the next screen says, 'Non-System Disk, Press any key'. Well I do this and the systems starts up. How do I get rid of this Non System disk message.Ps I used that Seagate 'Download SD1A Firmware update utility'

 

[robinbredin]

Or non bootable floopy disk in the floppy disk drive.

I dont have an floppy drive.

Most likely is the you have a usb stick/hard drive plugged in, and unplugging it will solve the issue.

I haven't got any of them

If that's not it, I'd hazard a guess that the firmware utility may create a partition on your boot drive to update the firmware from, then erases it - leaving the bios trying to boot to the missing partition

Went into the BIOS, and the boot order is ok, it's set to boot off the hard drive. Went into Disk management, and found no partition.

 

[robinbredin]

I had to move the hard drive to top of the hard drive list in BIOS to make it work again.

pressed F2, and the BIOS is set to boot off the HD which is at the top.

 

[robinbredin]

If the partition table on the drive is gone, bad luck. Hope you have a back up of your data

You might have something there, my BIOS setup is as follows,

Boot Order: 500GB on SATA Port 0

320GB on SATA port 5

Cd Rom

First Boot; Hard Drive

Second Boot: Hard Drive

Third Boot: CD Rom

 

[robinbredin]

Hi, Got it at last,and I did not even have to reinstall my Op to fix it. What i did was to boot off my Vista disc, select Repair your Computer, select Command Prompt, then typed in bootrec /fixmbr, then rebooted and it was fixed. Remember to leave a space between the c and / .