Boot Failure - Insert System Disk.

[Fred Bloggs]

Within the BIOS - is the Harddisk interface (SATA) set to ACHI, compatable or ATA

Try setting to ATa or compatable - it just might be that your image does not have the ACHI drivers..

if ACHI drivers are not install then you will get boot errors but more often than not a BSD on boot up!

Thanks, in BIOS (ASUS mobo) on board RAID is disabled and SATA interface is set to EIDE mode. It has always been that way thanks for the suggestion, I checked to see if anything had changed.

[vetran]

readyboost anywhere? I have an HP with a 4GB usb (could be a sd card) for readyboost. On certain bios settings it thinks the readyboost drive is bootable.

[Fred Bloggs]

readyboost anywhere? I have an HP with a 4GB usb (could be a sd card) for readyboost. On certain bios settings it thinks the readyboost drive is bootable.

Thanks, good thought but no. Fitted a new 320 Gb Western Digital hard drive yesterday. All's now well from using the Ghost image, thanks for all the comments. It's appreciated.

[wingnut]

Thanks, good thought but no. Fitted a new 320 Gb Western Digital hard drive yesterday. All's now well from using the Ghost image, thanks for all the comments. It's appreciated.

Glad to hear it. When in schtook I use the ultimate boot cd. Loads of good tools on there. Basically a Linux distro with password resetting tools, partition editors you name it.

SMART drives can give you information and there is utilities you can add that will warn you of any impeding issues.

When a disk fails like that I use Sprinrite by GRC.com Got me out of numerous scrapes

Drive Image for Linux is also a top piece of kit, but Ghost works well too.

Well done Fred.

[Fred Bloggs]

Thanks I'll look at those. The Ghost image certainly saved me probably 5 or 6 hours of rebuilding and updating several applications from scratch though. Luckily, the Ghost image I had was only about 5 days old when I needed it.