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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows NT/2000 => Topic started by: Rshaikh on August 16, 2005, 04:44:06 PM

Title: BOOT DISK FAILURE...Windows 2000
Post by: Rshaikh on August 16, 2005, 04:44:06 PM

My Win 2k will not boot and I did not create a boot disk during the install.  

I get a msg : "Boot disk failure, insert system disk and hit enter."

I do not know how to boot to a command prompt, please provides tips on this as well

Is there any hope in retrieving my data from that harddive.?
Is this a sign of completely trashed harddrive. ?

Title: Re: BOOT DISK FAILURE...Windows 2000
Post by: pcdoc4christ on August 16, 2005, 06:23:42 PM

Rshaikh:

Did you check the floppy disk drive for a diskette?  If there is one in the drive, remove it and reboot.

Regards,
Doc

Title: Re: BOOT DISK FAILURE...Windows 2000
Post by: Rshaikh on August 17, 2005, 09:18:06 AM

Yes, no floppy in drive...... but boot disk failures are not related to this.  it is a corupted sector I believe.

Title: Re: BOOT DISK FAILURE...Windows 2000
Post by: Raptor on August 17, 2005, 09:19:31 AM

If you are confident sectors are bad, replace the Hard Disk Drive.

Title: Re: BOOT DISK FAILURE...Windows 2000
Post by: dc1 on August 17, 2005, 07:06:57 PM

Have you tried a repair reinstall of the OS? I can't remember if 2000 has a recovery console, you can rebuild the boot sector easily off windows XP.

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Title: Re: BOOT DISK FAILURE...Windows 2000
Post by: Raashid Shaikh on August 18, 2005, 02:11:40 PM

Raptor...no I am NOT sure if sectors are bad...reason being the h/d does boot up once in a while say like once in every 20-25 attempts.

Once boots up then after a while it goes into a self reboot and ends up at BOOT DISK FAILURE msg.

Once it came up and I tried to run a disk defrag, which took a good 12 hrs on a 80Gb h/d then it reboot itself. It started to do a chkdsk and failed again.

I do not know how to boot the sys to a DOS mode, where I can run a chkdsk on it.
..waiting on more suggestions!

Title: Re: BOOT DISK FAILURE...Windows 2000
Post by: merlin_2 on August 18, 2005, 02:21:33 PM

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000387.htm


http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm

Title: Re: BOOT DISK FAILURE...Windows 2000
Post by: Raptor on August 18, 2005, 02:37:30 PM

Try downloading diagnostic software from the HDD manufacturer and use it as a bootable diskette to test the HDD.