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"disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter"

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InvisableMan

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it's like i can never enjoy a working computer for more than a week without it magically stop working for no reason. so here's what happened:

i'm just usng my computer as a normal computer user would use one's computer. surfing the web, instant messaging programs and the like, then my main harddrive makes a low click sound, then a slightly higher click sound after about half a second, then windows stops responding, then less than a second after my system achieves full lockup. so i'm like, ok, that's weird, and i reboot.i boot into bios and make sure it's not set to turn off the harddrives for any reason, and when i see that it isn't and there are no other wonky settings, i boot windows (xp pro sp2 .net) into safemode and just to make sure, start a virus scan, while that's working i look and make sure drive indexing is turned off (it isnf't on the main drive, so i turn it off) and that power save things are set to always on, and that's all ok, so while i'm waiting for the virus scan to finish, it does the click thing again, locks up, so i'm like wtf and i reboot again, this time it gets to the ascii loading bar before the animated startup screen before the login prompt, and it does the click thing and stops, so i reboot AGAIN, and this time it gets to "verifying dmi pool data..." after detecting the drives and whatnot, does the click thing and stops right there, then after a minute or so i see "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER".... so i sit there getting madder by the second and press enter, then it gives me a blank screen and that message again, and that's where it sits right now as i type this (but once i post i'll turn it off)

so i was running a virus scan, avg free edition, and it scanned the registry and the mbr for viruses and didn't find any, so i dunno, this either is a virus that i don't have a definition for, or some random progressive hardware failure, or my computer decided to crap out on me randomly.
 
hard drive clicking is not a sign of good HDD health I would get your MFR's HDD diagnostic utility and see what it says. In the Meantime start backing up your critical files just in case.
does sound like a dying drive.
 
what HDD brand is that? one of my HDDs is Maxtor and once in a while it does make a clicking sound and makes the whole rig lock up. What helps is using different molex connector... but generally - yeah, when HD makes cliking sounds it's not something good...
 
yeah that's what i figured it might be, since bios is reading NONE on channel 0 master, i assume that is what happened. doesn't matter too much, kinda pisses me off since i just formatted the damn thing less than a week ago and i just got everything installed just like i like it, and my storage drive which is twice as old is fine, well i'll mess with it some more and if i don't get it working that's just what i'll assume.

oh, and yeah it's a maxtor, both of my ide drives are. maybe this'll be an excuse to start using a sata drive as my primary drive
 
i used to format once a month, getting all the settings and tweaks to your likeing back agian does suck but atleast you got your data.
 
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