I have also posted this in Technical Support forums but is seem to be more of an OS issue.
I must have bad luck. I just built a new system, everything has worked great. I have never been happier with a computer and its performance. I hadn't booted up my computer for about a week, and yesterday I turned it on and right before the windows XP load page I get "Disk Boot Failure. Insert System Disk and Press Enter" I know this isn't good. It was acting like there was no OS loaded. Again I hadn't changed anything and everything was totally fine till this boot. I have 2 HDs, a Seagate 80 GB Serial ATA, and my old back up a Maxtor 30GB. After putting a startup disk in an going to the prompt the C: was now my old Maxtor 30 GB instead of the new Seagate 80GB. The Bios recognized both drives. So I unplugged the Maxtor drive and rebooted. After the boot disk takes me to the command prompt I can only read the A:... the seagate wasn't there but it shows it still on the Bios. So this morning I setup WIN XP SP1 again... XP loaded up fine. I was able to check the HD contents and all my old stuff was still there, minus somethings like Word and Excel. Any Ideas what happened? Any Diagnostics I should do? I don't want this to happen again... any guesses what causes this?
Comp Specs:
AMD 3000+ CPU
EPOX NPNA Ultra
Seagate 80 GB Serial ata
Maxtor 30 GB
1GB DDR Ram Corsair Value
Evga 6600 GT VC
Win XP SP 1
I must have bad luck. I just built a new system, everything has worked great. I have never been happier with a computer and its performance. I hadn't booted up my computer for about a week, and yesterday I turned it on and right before the windows XP load page I get "Disk Boot Failure. Insert System Disk and Press Enter" I know this isn't good. It was acting like there was no OS loaded. Again I hadn't changed anything and everything was totally fine till this boot. I have 2 HDs, a Seagate 80 GB Serial ATA, and my old back up a Maxtor 30GB. After putting a startup disk in an going to the prompt the C: was now my old Maxtor 30 GB instead of the new Seagate 80GB. The Bios recognized both drives. So I unplugged the Maxtor drive and rebooted. After the boot disk takes me to the command prompt I can only read the A:... the seagate wasn't there but it shows it still on the Bios. So this morning I setup WIN XP SP1 again... XP loaded up fine. I was able to check the HD contents and all my old stuff was still there, minus somethings like Word and Excel. Any Ideas what happened? Any Diagnostics I should do? I don't want this to happen again... any guesses what causes this?
Comp Specs:
AMD 3000+ CPU
EPOX NPNA Ultra
Seagate 80 GB Serial ata
Maxtor 30 GB
1GB DDR Ram Corsair Value
Evga 6600 GT VC
Win XP SP 1
