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Finished building new computer, "BOOT DISK FAILURE"

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Ample Idiocy

Junior Member
I'm a newbie more or less, and I was wondering if anyone ever had this problem. I just recently bought all the parts for a new computer, put it together, turns on fine, BIOS works fine, but the only CD it will read is my ASUS CD. When I put in the WinXP CD, it just says "BOOT DISK FAILURE, PUT IN SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"

So yeah, I don't know what to do. Someone told me the XP CD might be faulty. Anyone know any other reasons, or ways to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance.

-Ample Idiocy.

ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester 1GHz FSB Socket 939
eVGA 256-P2-N516 Geforce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS 70SB035000000 8 (7.1) Channels PCI Interface Sound Card
G.SKILL Extreme Series 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 500 (PC 4000)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
NEC Black IDE/ATAPI DVD Burner Model ND-3550A
LITE-ON Black IDE DVD-ROM Drive Model SOHD-16P9SV
Antec TRUEPOWERII TPII-550 ATX12V 550W Power Supply
Antec Performance I P180 Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
 
1) Welocme to AnandTech
2) Damned nice system there

3) You've got 2 DVD drives listed there. Did you try the WinXP CD in both of them? As Thor86 said, check your BIOS for the boot order to make sure you've got it set properly.
 
Yes I do. I did mostly everything from a tutorial, to make sure I don't screw anything up. Like I said, it'll read the ASUS CD, so I know its working, but just gives me that error when I try the WinXP CD.

EDIT: I tried it in both drives, and same thing happens. In the BIOS I set the CD drives as 1st Priority boot, so it can't be that. 🙁

-Ample Idiocy.
 
Lol.. no. The guy that gave it to me is the tech guy for my family's business. He gave me one of his copies. He's the one that told me that the disk is possibly faulty, which is why I'm probably going to have to drive to his house tonight to get another disk. Would that be the only possible reason for such a thing happening?

-Ample Idiocy.
 
Since your motherboard CD booted I'm guessing the problem is the CD itself. You'd probably be better off picking up a retail version of XP Home because I'm willing to bet you run into install and/or activaiton issues with your next copy.
 
Well if this next copy gives me an installation issue, then I will. As far as the activation, there are ways around that. 😉

-Ample Idiocy.
 
Originally posted by: Ample Idiocy
Well if this next copy gives me an installation issue, then I will. As far as the activation, there are ways around that. 😉

-Ample Idiocy.
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my friend had a similar problem, what he did was disconnect the SATA drive and then boot from the xp cd, after it had booted from the cd he reconnected his hdd and his problem was solved. btw you shouldn't mention what i highlighted as this would get you into trouble with the mods
 
This error is generated by BIOS because it is unable to locate a valid MBR on the disk it is trying to boot to.

This has nothing to do with your OS.


Seeing as you are only up to your fourth post on AT you might want to STFU about bypassing activation. This is a pretty upstanding crowd here and the members and moderators don't take very kindly to piracy talk.
 
Originally posted by: Ample Idiocy
Well if this next copy gives me an installation issue, then I will. As far as the activation, there are ways around that. 😉

-Ample Idiocy.
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I'm aware there are ways around it but as calvinHobbs mentioned you shouldn't talk about it.

Also, I think it's easier to just pay for it. Had you done that you'd already be up and running. 😉
 
Originally posted by: SmilinSeeing as you are only up to your fourth post on AT you might want to STFU about bypassing activation. This is a pretty upstanding crowd here and the members and moderators don't take very kindly to piracy talk.
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Aye to that. I had some Asus-specific words of wisdom to offer, but I'm not very motivated to help cheats.
 
I had this same problem, and Smilin said, this has nothing to do with your OS. I've had this problem for a good 5 months now, and still have been unable to solve it..though I do believe that when I first installed windows on my pc it recognized that as a system disk. Now, this is the only cd that my computer is able to boot from, not any other copy of windows either. Please help me 🙂
 
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