My hard drive won't boot

"Patch" <bob_acord@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Just completed a new install of XP on a new computer. When I first started
> the install, I went into BIOS and had the first boot device as the CD Rom
as
> the hard drive was new and had no system files on it. The install went
> fairly normal, the only problem, the only way I can boot is to keep the CD
> as the first boot device, plus I have to had the XP install disk in the CD
> Rom drive. If I try to boot with the floppy or hard drive first I get the
> following;
>
> PXE-E61: Media test failure check cable.
> PXE-MOF: Exiting Nvidia boot agent.
> Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter.
>
> Does this mean there are no system files on my hard drive? If so, how do I
> correct this problem?

The first error message says your hard drive is either
misconnected or not working. Do you disbelieve this?
The vendor should be ready to replace the drive.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

Just completed a new install of XP on a new computer. When I first started
the install, I went into BIOS and had the first boot device as the CD Rom as
the hard drive was new and had no system files on it. The install went
fairly normal, the only problem, the only way I can boot is to keep the CD
as the first boot device, plus I have to had the XP install disk in the CD
Rom drive. If I try to boot with the floppy or hard drive first I get the
following;

PXE-E61: Media test failure check cable.
PXE-MOF: Exiting Nvidia boot agent.
Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter.

Does this mean there are no system files on my hard drive? If so, how do I
correct this problem?

"Patch" <bob_acord@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23q%23axFLIIHA.6108@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Just completed a new install of XP on a new computer. When I first started
> the install, I went into BIOS and had the first boot device as the CD Rom
as
> the hard drive was new and had no system files on it. The install went
> fairly normal, the only problem, the only way I can boot is to keep the CD
> as the first boot device, plus I have to had the XP install disk in the CD
> Rom drive. If I try to boot with the floppy or hard drive first I get the
> following;
>
> PXE-E61: Media test failure check cable.
> PXE-MOF: Exiting Nvidia boot agent.
> Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter.
>
> Does this mean there are no system files on my hard drive? If so, how do I
> correct this problem?
>
>


Set the bios to boot first from the cdrom
and 2nd from the harddrive


now boot from the cd and go to the recovery console


issue the command fixboot


remove the cd and see if that helps after a reboot