Re: Yet another Disk Boot Failure debacle

On 29 Aug 2006 10:54:25 -0700, "dbubd" <matthewmwarren@xxxxxxxxx>:

When
I start it up... Disk Boot Failure (DBF)...

It might be a software problem (Windows improperly installed), or a
motherboard problem.

Sometimes, when I move hard disks around (keeping my "main" disk as
master on IDE1 of course), the BIOS won't find the right boot sector,
and Windows 2000 won't start.
Fortunately, on my motherboard (like on most recent motherboards), I
can press "Escape" to have a "boot menu" (i.e. I can choose which
drive to boot on). Then it works fine.

Usually, after a while, the problem disappears. I'm not sure why.


On other PCs, I've seen the boot sector damaged, but apparently due to
software reasons, since reinstalling Windows did the trick.

.

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