Is the power cord on the hard drive plugged in all the
way?  Does your BIOS indicate you have a hard drive?

John

--- jon&marie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi im currently really stuck with a problem which
> has lasted over a week & im on the verge of madness,
> Ive just bought a new motherboard which is a MSI
> K7N2 delta with a 3.2xp cpu and some 3200ddr (400)
> now my problem is i now cant get the pc to boot up
> to see if its working ok because i get the error at
> startup  " boot disk failure , replace boot disk and
> press any key" i had win xp pro on hdd before  and
> it was running but since ive had case open it wont
> start up now  it also tells me to check cable which
> ive done  and ive also replaced the cable in case of
> fault but it just seems like it aint finding my
> hard drive at all , I downloaded the xp boot disk so
> i could format through f disk thats on your site but
> it tells me theres no  disk present to format ??
> help?
> p.s. if this mail sounds all confused to you then
> thats cos i am confused lol .
> Any help would be greatly appreciated thanx:).
>
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