Disk Boot Failure

Computer Forum Storage Devices
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Alright, I am building a new pc and so far haven’t had much success. I am now able to at least get the system on, but no matter what drive I try to use to boot(optical or hdd) it tells me “disk boot failure”. There is nothing wrong with the drives, but could anyone give a possible solution?
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35 minutes ago
Also, I should mention that I do not even have Windows installed yet or cannot use any kind of disk to help. Whenever I go into the BIOS, it tells me my IDE Master is "GMAX6(Weird squiggly lines)h81.

34 minutes ago
My IDE master is an optical cd drive and I am using a SATA for the hard drive.

33 minutes ago
I have the jumpers set to master. Could any jumper settings on my motherboard be the source?

25 minutes ago
Jumpers are good I think. I’ve got only one optical drive–CD-ROM. I’ve set it as the IDE Master. Also, I don’t see any settings for setting SATA as master?

24 minutes ago
Boot sequence is CD, then Hard Drive, then disabled all the rest except for where it says other boot device

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Ok, how are you trying to boot from the CD?..You’ll need a booting CD to do that, if not, the BIOS will go to boot from the HDD and as you have not any OS on it it will fail.

3

I’m using the Windows XP Installation disk. Is this not the right one?

4

Yes, it is. But is it an original one?

Does the BIOS see your CD?

5

It is a legal, burnt copy. As for whether or not the BIOS reads it, I’m not sure. Whenever I try to boot from the cd, it tells me Media Failure, Check connection or something like that. I made sure my connections are in, but still nothing.

6

Go into BIOS and see what the boot priority is. If you have multiple drives, make sure that the drive with the OS on it is showing up, and if so, that it’s the first hard drive in the hard drive boot order.

7

Try with another CD…it seems that the CD is not good

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I’ve tried several cd’s