major help with computer

[john123]

When my friend turns on his computer, it says "Disk boot failure, insert system disk". I looked it up on google and I phoned up best buy and they both said that you have to reformat your computer to fix this. Is there ANY way to fix this without reformatting? It's sorta me and my friends fault cuz he shoved a screwdriver into the broken cd rom drive, but the computer still worked fine, but then when i went home, i get a phone call and his moms like "what did you do to teh kompooter, its saiz dizk boot feiliure".

[Mr. Badguy]

His mom blamed you for him breaking his own computer?! If I were you, I'd phone her up, stick my hand through the telephone and strangle her ***. You don't have to kill her, just send her a message is all I'm sayin'...

I had something similar happen to me recently (at least, I'm pretty sure that I got the same message). I called up technical support, and they told me that I needed to buy a new cd-rom drive. Does your friend's computer still run cds at all?

[Light Fantastic]

Ask best buy.

[john123]

he has 2 cd drives, and the top one was already broken, so my friend stuck the screwdriver in it and the computer just turned off. he fiddled around with it and then the computer turned back on. we played nfs for a while. i went home. i get an angry phone call. the bottom cd drive worked fine, but when she called, she said it was jammed.

[Mr. Badguy]

Most distressing. Most distressing indeed...

Does your friend have any old computers around the house that he has access to? I'd say, just out of curiosity, to try taking an older cd drive and installing it into the computer, to see if that might help. Also, if you're going to try that route, take out all of the broken rom drives as well.

What was the original problem with the cd roms?

[john123]

well, the bottom one was fine, but the top was was ****ed when he got the computer from his aunt. and as i was saying, the computer was working fine before i left.

/feels guilty :upset:

[I'm Charming]

If it won't boot, boot.INI might have vanished or at least vital sysFiles.

Re install windows.

[john123]

but his mom doesnt wanna reinstall the os :upset:

[Klown]

Take out both the CD drives and try booting it up.

[Turkish]

Try going into the CMOS and switching the Boot Sequence from CDROM to Hdd-0

[john123]

his mom wont let me open the computer

[john123]

i have no clue

[Turkish]

Try my advice.

When the computer Boots up, hit the delete button, that'll take you into the cmos, then I think it's in PC Configuration...I'm not real sure...usually the second selection in the menu.

Just look for boot sequence and change it from CD Rom to Hdd-0

[Mr. Badguy]

If his mom's being such a royal pain in the arse, why do you want to help? It sounds like your friend played the blame game on you, and you took the heat for him sticking a friggin' screwdriver into his cd-drive.

I apologise if that's not the case, but it sounds like that's how things happened...

[Turkish]

Or it might be HDD-1, I can't quite remember. It's been so long since I've had to deal with that error.

[Ephemeral]

Change the boot order to HDD first, in the BIOS settings.
Like The Crimson said.

Why the hell would you stick a screwdriver in a CD drive?

[john123]

the boot sequence on his comp is C:, and then A:. theres no D:, and D is his cd rom

[Hardhat]

Go into run on the start menu and type in C://runstartup. Then go into control pannel and go to system settings. Go to MOD DOS and type in telnet necat. Decompile your harddrive, and it should help.

And if that doesn't work, go into "View" and then "Source". Scroll down until you get to the

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:wave: Hope I Helped :)

[Turkish]

And you didn't, because he can't even start up the OS.

[Mr. Badguy]

That definetly deserves some points though, Hardhat. Way to help out! :thumb:

[john123]

lol. i cant start up windows

[john123]

That definetly deserves some points though, Hardhat. Way to help out! :thumb:
thats right, but he probly just copied it from google or something

[Rats!]

there is a way to fix this without reinstalling Windows, but I won't tell you because you're a ****ing idiot.

[Turtle Soup]

there is a way to fix this without reinstalling Windows, but I won't tell you because you're a ****ing idiot.
Thank you

[john123]

there is a way to fix this without reinstalling Windows, but I won't tell you because you're a ****ing idiot.
plz. ill be nice :) is it "put in the windows cd and click repair previous installation"

[Ephemeral]

plz. ill be nice :) is it "put in the windows cd and click repair previous installation"
You could do that, but you have to make sure you know the Admin password.

[john123]

ya i know it, but theres one problem, the bios doesnt support booting from cd so the cd doesnt even open

[Turtle Soup]

You sir, suck

seriously, take it to a shop

[Klown]

You should tell his mum to let you do what I suggested.

Although that might be a bad thing since you don't know what you're doing and would probably end up frying his mobo with static.

[john123]

nah, his mom wont let me near his computer again, even tho i didnt do anything. Come to think of it, I think he fried something with the screwdriver

[Klown]

nah, his mom wont let me near his computer again, even tho i didnt do anything. Come to think of it, I think he fried something with the screwdriver
Well tell him to do what I told you to do.

Your friend sounds like a retard so tell him to Google "How to remove a CD drive" before he doesn anything.