COMPUTER BROKE :(

[NYCboy]

juat yesterday when i was booting up my computer,its goes throgh the motherboard screen (when its shows its pictures EX:ASUS the best way of deal)then after that it scans my hard drive and its says "DISK BOOT FAILURE,INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND RESTART" and i put in the WINDOWS XP disk and still it says the same thing.help guys i cant afford to buy a new computer now

SPECS:

motherboard:ASUS A8V-E SE
VIDEO CARD:EVGA 8600GT 256MB SCC edition
HARD DRIVE: MAXTOR 320GB serialATA (SATA)
CPU:AMD ATHLON 64 3800+
RAM: 1.756 GB ram

PLEASE HELP!!:'( NOTE:i also out this in yahoo answers for more help

 

[jeffmorris]

Get a new hard disk drive. Buy one made by Western Digital or Seagate.

 

[NickyVeee]

Before you go about replacing your hard drive. Try setting your BIOS to boot from the CD drive first, then the hard drive following. Because by inserting a CD in, sometimes the BIOS boots from the hard drive, and it ignores everything else.

It's a very simple setting change and won't take much time. I hate to say it, but you'll probably have to format the drive, unless like the guy suggests above me, it went bad.

 

[poppins122325]

i had a similar problem so i dicided to try and save my data i put the hdd in another computer as a slave drive coppied all the data i wanted on to dvds then wiped the drive clean and reinstalled xp


good luck
nathan

 

[NYCboy]

mm.i think a am gonna buy a new hardrive.wow my 320GB hard drive is now a slave.never tought this day would come ;(

 

[poppins122325]

me again did the method i posted work if not there is probably no way to get your data back the first time this happened i had an 80 gb drive it said it couldnt boot windows so i mounted it as a slave in my other computer coppied my data i wanted to my flash drives dvds and cds then brought a 160gb drive and coppied all of my data back on the new drive. i wiped the old drive and 3 days later it went dead.

good luck
nathan