The boot failure is because your primary drive now has no partitions on it, and thus no OS. You need to boot from a floppy or CD-Venkat Viswanathan <[log in to unmask]>ROM and partition and format the drive, and install an OS. David Gillett On 10 Feb 2006 at 23:50, Chris Gagne wrote: > I recently used KillDisk (free version) to wipe a primary hard drive. > Now, when I re-boot it shows that the primary slave, secondary master > and secondary slave do not exist. At the bottom of the screen it says > "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and Press Enter". > > What do I have to do to make the system recognize the hard drive so > that I can reinstall Windows. Thank you all! > > Chris The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering our special coffee mugs and mouse pads with the PCBUILD logo... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml