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ImNoGod

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So im gone from home for a couple of hours, when i comeback my sister tells me there is
something wrong with the computer. I walk in and the computer is siting in a blank black
screen state, with white text near the top that says
Code: 
Please insert disk press enter
to continue
Now mind you that is not the exact error message i only glanced at it. So i reboot my pc.
Sure enough right after the beep in startup it goes to this blank black screen with the
same error message. Damn, I restart it, reset the CMOS. Nothing. Then I try to boot into
safe mode, by pressing F8 right after the beep. However, nothing happens and it goes to
the blank black screen with white text. So finialy i whip out my restore disk. I boot off
the disk and i get to the window reformat screen fine. Problem is I don't want to reformat,
so i select the "no" option. It re-boots with the same black screen now. Except the white
text is no longer there.

Sorry if this is hard to understand, Im a bit pissed off about the whole thing and i'm in a hurry. Please help me find a soultion.

Oh and Re-formating IS NOT an option.
 
did you check the connection on the inside? It sounds like the harddrive is not working or not hooked up. (dunno why you are posting in the videocard section though, lol)

you can also check the manual to your mobo to see what type of beep it is and see what error it is.

I'd suggest using chkdsk repair, but it sounds like the hdd is dead
 
Clarity said:
did you check the connection on the inside? It sounds like the harddrive is not working or not hooked up. (dunno why you are posting in the videocard section though, lol)

you can also check the manual to your mobo to see what type of beep it is and see what error it is.

I'd suggest using chkdsk repair, but it sounds like the hdd is dead
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Harddrive is hooked up. The beep is the same exact beep it has always had.

belmicah said:
go to another pc and make a Bart PE disk.
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Um, what?
 
Did you download a freeware game someone posted on the [H]ard forums recently?

Someone posted a game that reformats your hard drive if you lose.
 
If I couldn't format and I was having troubles like that and had no idea what it was, I would either take that hard drive out, put it in another system, back it up and format it, or I would get another hard drive, put windows on it, back that hard drive up and then format it. :p I sorta had the same problem here recently, but I backed all my stuff up the day it started to have troubles and then I Formatted it. Formatting is good.
 
Come to think of it, how could the harddrive be dead? It shows the E-machine logo during bootup (right before the beep) So the harddrive has to be working....
 
The E-machines logo is most likely burnt into the CMOS chip. Remove the HD, and I bet the same image will still show ;)

In the BIOS, make CERTAIN the HD is set as the first startup device. Oftentimes, if this is changed to a CD rom or a Floppy drive, and the HD is 3rd or 4th, windows won't boot.

Why is this in the graphics subforum?
 
So heres the deal. Your right, i get the same error when i unplug the harddrive. When i
check in the BIOS IT says

PRIMARY MASTER [TSSTCORP CDW/DVD] (my dvd/cd rom drive)
PRIMARY Slave [LITE-ON LTR-48327] (My other cd rom drive.0
Secondary MASTER [HDS722580VLAT20] (my harddrive)
SECONDARY SLAVE [NONE]

So if it's detecting my harddrive than it's not fried?
 
ImNoGod said:
So heres the deal. Your right, i get the same error when i unplug the harddrive. When i
check in the BIOS IT says

PRIMARY MASTER [TSSTCORP CDW/DVD] (my dvd/cd rom drive)
PRIMARY Slave [LITE-ON LTR-48327] (My other cd rom drive.0
Secondary MASTER [HDS722580VLAT20] (my harddrive)
SECONDARY SLAVE [NONE]

So if it's detecting my harddrive than it's not fried?
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your hdd should be primary master if it's IDE
 
ImNoGod said:
So heres the deal. Your right, i get the same error when i unplug the harddrive. When i
check in the BIOS IT says

PRIMARY MASTER [TSSTCORP CDW/DVD] (my dvd/cd rom drive)
PRIMARY Slave [LITE-ON LTR-48327] (My other cd rom drive.0
Secondary MASTER [HDS722580VLAT20] (my harddrive)
SECONDARY SLAVE [NONE]

So if it's detecting my harddrive than it's not fried?
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not necessarily, just because it can read the HD's firmware doesn't mean it can read the media.

Did you check to make sure there's not a floppy disk in the ffloppy drive?
 
ryan_975 said:
not necessarily, just because it can read the HD's firmware doesn't mean it can read the media.

Did you check to make sure there's not a floppy disk in the ffloppy drive?
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I have no floppy drive.

Oh, and i changed it to PRIMARY master. No difference.
 
Xp SP2

Exact error message =
Code: 
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
 
that's a BIOS error. I was thinking it said "invalid System Disk or Disk error, please insert disk and press any key". However, this basically means that BIOS cannot find an active partition with a valid boot sector.

Do you have an actual XP installtion CD or a eMachines recovery disc?
 
Yes i do, but i have data on that harddrive which i need. How do i do a repair install?
 
ImNoGod said:
Yes i do, but i have data on that harddrive which i need. How do i do a repair install?
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XP should give you a choice on the first screen after loading all the files needed to run setup. It'll be something like pressing R to run the recovery console. Press R. Then it should load the recovery console and ask for the administrator password if it finds an OS to recover. Enter your password. You'll get a command prompt if successful.

At the command prompt type "fixmbr" and press enter, it'll ask if you're sure. say yes. This will write a new Master Boor Record to the first sector of the hard drive enabling the BIOS to boot from the HD

Then enter "fixboot" to write a new boot sector to the system partition, enabling the MBR program to boot from the system partition.

Type exit and the system will reboot. If that doesn't work let me know.
 
Do you have another computer you can hook the disk up to?

Mount it using an IDE cable, or USB to IDE cable and copy the entire thing. Then sort the data you want, reformat the drive and install windows.

Send the data over to the newly formatted XP disk from the 2ndary computer.

If the BIOS detects the disk, but cannot read from it, your Windows install is probably fucked, but your data Should be there. Unless you really FUBARd some stuff and corrputed / encrypted the drive... of course.

God forbid my 4gb encrypted flash drive ever gets corrupted :p
 
I'm guessing you downloaded the "Grid Wars 2" game here yesterday. Anyways, if you did, what happened is it wiped your hdd. I reinstalled Windows and it shows me having my whole hdd unpartitioned and free of space.
 
Valcrist77 said:
I'm guessing you downloaded the "Grid Wars 2" game here yesterday. Anyways, if you did, what happened is it wiped your hdd. I reinstalled Windows and it shows me having my whole hdd unpartitioned and free of space.
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No, I dont think he did, he stated it was his sister that saw had the problem (or at least was on the computer at the time).

Now, if your sister browses [H]... send me her email please :).
 
Valcrist77 said:
I'm guessing you downloaded the "Grid Wars 2" game here yesterday. Anyways, if you did, what happened is it wiped your hdd. I reinstalled Windows and it shows me having my whole hdd unpartitioned and free of space.
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OMFG, fuck me, fuck me.
 
This is not VidCard related. Please post in a more appropriate forum if you are still having issues.
 
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