# Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter **URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disk-boot-failure-insert-system-disk-and-press-enter/213440 **Category:** Uncategorized **Created:** [January 19, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disk-boot-failure-insert-system-disk-and-press-enter/213440 "2007-01-19T16:47:09Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![tpspoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@tpspoons](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tpspoons) #### Post date: [January 19, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disk-boot-failure-insert-system-disk-and-press-enter/213440/1 "2007-01-19T16:47:09Z")
[whisper]Before posting I searched google but none of the solutions I found worked[/whisper] Long story short, I have 2 hdd’s, one with xp home installed on it. Basicly, I deleted one of the partitions on my second hdd, then resized the other partition to fit. I formatted it before. (Never touched the hdd with xp installed on it) Then when I restarted, it came up with the error: > DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER I checked the bios, set the hdd with xp installed to boot first, didn’t work. I tried unplugging the second hdd, didn’t work. So then I booted into the xp recovery cd, and entered recovery mode. I tried various things, firstly chkdsk, which didn’t work. So I tried bootcfg /rebuild, which came up with another error: > Error: Failed to successfully scan disks for Windows installation. This error may be caused by a corrupt file system, which would prevent Bootcfg from scanning. Use chkdsk to detect any errors. Note: This operation must complete successfully in order for the /add or /rebuild commands to be utilized The weird thing is, I can (in the recovery mode) browse through the hdd with xp on it, open some files and they seem fine. Anyway I tried chkdsk again and wasn’t suprised when it didn’t work (still same error). Well I tried a few other things but nothing worked. So any ideas why this might be happening? edit: oh and I plugged in an old windows 98 hd (:P), which booted fine. Open my computer to check out if I could access my old hd, backup my stuff and re-install windows. But it wasn’t there, which is weird. Might be important… edit2: Oh and I also tried fixboot, and fixmbr, but when I tried fixmbr it came up with an error. Il run it again and copy the error.