Ive been messing around with wires plugins all that crap ive tried switching somethings in bios but nothing seems to recognise my hard drive. When i boot it up it sits there then goes to a screen saying disk boot failure reboot and enter right boot device or enter a boot media device. Ive also tried switching hard drives and it does the same thing.





So please any one know anything about this let me know thanks

Well firstly when you boot go into bios and and make sure it sees the drive, it's the first section in my bios.

If it's recognised then good.

Then find boot order section and set boot order as HD1 (hard drive) then floppy, cd rom and other.

I set mine up as cd rom drive first boot device, then floppy (usb) then zip then HD1.

Should work.

If you look in your motherboard hand book should point to each section of your bios.

Another thing, on the righ hand side of bios screen it should say about set to defaults or (forgot word) optimised or, select optimised and save and boot, then go back to bios and see boot order or boot sequence and see the order, if you don't have a floppy then put cd rom first, then HD1 or HD1 then cd rom etc.

Are you building a new computer?

Adding a new drive?

Are you trying to install an operating system to this drive?

Is it an IDE drive or a SATA drive?

If SATA it requires drivers for Windows to install.

Also if SATA II and your motherboard only supports SATA I you will need to set the transfer rate jumper from 3 to 1.5

and also i've had this problem before is somehow my copy of windows got screwed up, so my computer couldn't boot up, showed a somewhat similar error to yours. my copy of windows got so screwed that i couldn't even repair it through the Boot CD.

what i end up doing was just installing a fresh copy on another drive and go into windows to format the original drive.

worth a try if all else fails.