Comments on: Windows Vista - Non-system disk or disk error http://www.jon-kingsbury.com/2007/03/22/windows-vista-non-system-disk-or-disk-error/ The Personal Blog of a Webmaster Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:11:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Scott http://www.jon-kingsbury.com/2007/03/22/windows-vista-non-system-disk-or-disk-error/#comment-78 Scott Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:13:28 +0000 http://www.jon-kingsbury.com/2007/03/22/windows-vista-non-system-disk-or-disk-error/#comment-78 Same problem here!!! i just got new asus m2a-vm motherboard bought a new sata 300 gig hard drive. made a 20 gig partition for vista and left the rest unallocated for now. booted up vista (lots of stability problems with ddr2 800 which i fixed by bumping the memory vcore from 1.8 to 1.9-2.0) Then I am installing drivers from the cdrom that came with my board, and it reboots too make changes. When it boots up it actually boots to my asus cd (i forget to take out) and when i reboot again it says non-system disk error. I put the vista business dvd in and it boots fine (as long as i dont press a key too boot to dvd). I take it out and its non -system disk error. i have 3 sata drives and 2 IDE and a cd rom, I installed vista to sata1 drive clean install. wtf Scott. Same problem here!!!
i just got new asus m2a-vm motherboard bought a new sata 300 gig hard drive.
made a 20 gig partition for vista and left the rest unallocated for now.

booted up vista (lots of stability problems with ddr2 800 which i fixed by bumping the memory vcore from 1.8 to 1.9-2.0)
Then I am installing drivers from the cdrom that came with my board, and it reboots too make changes. When it boots up it actually boots to my asus cd (i forget to take out) and when i reboot again it says non-system disk error.

I put the vista business dvd in and it boots fine (as long as i dont press a key too boot to dvd). I take it out and its non -system disk error.

i have 3 sata drives and 2 IDE and a cd rom, I installed vista to sata1 drive clean install.
wtf

Scott.

]]> By: Tom http://www.jon-kingsbury.com/2007/03/22/windows-vista-non-system-disk-or-disk-error/#comment-70 Tom Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:10:13 +0000 http://www.jon-kingsbury.com/2007/03/22/windows-vista-non-system-disk-or-disk-error/#comment-70 Iv got the same problem on to computers now, but both with diffrent ASUS mobo's.. both installtions is on SATA disks, dosen't seem to start without CD in the reader.. but I will be sure to check if my jumpers are set to master on the only IDE disk still running in my computer. Iv got the same problem on to computers now, but both with diffrent ASUS mobo’s.. both installtions is on SATA disks, dosen’t seem to start without CD in the reader.. but I will be sure to check if my jumpers are set to master on the only IDE disk still running in my computer.

]]> By: Al http://www.jon-kingsbury.com/2007/03/22/windows-vista-non-system-disk-or-disk-error/#comment-56 Al Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:01:16 +0000 http://www.jon-kingsbury.com/2007/03/22/windows-vista-non-system-disk-or-disk-error/#comment-56 This issue has reared it's ugly head to me in less than a week. Every boot time now and irritating. At least, it lets me press a key and still boot up. This and that delightful broken Control Panel issue... I had thought Vista to be quite nifty, but I thought wrong. I just had to vent, I thought I've done something to start breaking things, but it appears that these things happen to other Vista users. Ridiculous, I must say. This issue has reared it’s ugly head to me in less than a week. Every boot time now and irritating. At least, it lets me press a key and still boot up.

This and that delightful broken Control Panel issue… I had thought Vista to be quite nifty, but I thought wrong.

I just had to vent, I thought I’ve done something to start breaking things, but it appears that these things happen to other Vista users. Ridiculous, I must say.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.jon-kingsbury.com/2007/03/22/windows-vista-non-system-disk-or-disk-error/#comment-50 Kevin Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:37:59 +0000 http://www.jon-kingsbury.com/2007/03/22/windows-vista-non-system-disk-or-disk-error/#comment-50 i also had a problem with this. but this was with windows xp. there was no floppy in the drive, yet it still wont start up, showing the exact same message. what do i do? please email me if you happen to know, KJM2245@yahoo.com. thank you. i also had a problem with this. but this was with windows xp. there was no floppy in the drive, yet it still wont start up, showing the exact same message. what do i do? please email me if you happen to know, KJM2245@yahoo.com. thank you.

]]> By: Chewy http://www.jon-kingsbury.com/2007/03/22/windows-vista-non-system-disk-or-disk-error/#comment-26 Chewy Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:21:38 +0000 http://www.jon-kingsbury.com/2007/03/22/windows-vista-non-system-disk-or-disk-error/#comment-26 I had a similar problem. In order for me to even get through the install process I had to have an IDE HD drive attached otherwise it wouldn't let me past the 2nd install dialog complaining that I needed device drivers for my CD/DVD Drive. Once I put an IDE HD in, i didn't even need drivers and it allowed me to proceed past the 2nd install dialog. I was able to install Vista 64-bit to my SATA drive (It took about 3 tries and i didn't need any additional drivers). However, when i booted into Vista it designated the IDE drive as the System Volume / Partition. This is weird because I had to boot from the IDE drive (which had no real files on it) while the windows partition (c:\windows) existed on a different hard disk / volume (SATA disk). I then followed the tip above and removed the IDE drive then I used the install cd to "repair an installation". If you look at the details of the repair, it shows that it found the real windows partition and it remade the bootmgr and attributed the real windows partition with type system.(I had to do a repair twice} It all works now, Thanks! System specs: 2x512 MB Crucial RAM 1 SATA Maxtor 250GB 1 IDE Seagate 200MB Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe (BIOS 1015) Silicon Image SiI3114r Raid Controller AMD Socket 939 4200+ I had a similar problem. In order for me to even get through the install process I had to have an IDE HD drive attached otherwise it wouldn’t let me past the 2nd install dialog complaining that I needed device drivers for my CD/DVD Drive. Once I put an IDE HD in, i didn’t even need drivers and it allowed me to proceed past the 2nd install dialog. I was able to install Vista 64-bit to my SATA drive (It took about 3 tries and i didn’t need any additional drivers).

However, when i booted into Vista it designated the IDE drive as the System Volume / Partition. This is weird because I had to boot from the IDE drive (which had no real files on it) while the windows partition (c:\windows) existed on a different hard disk / volume (SATA disk). I then followed the tip above and removed the IDE drive then I used the install cd to “repair an installation”. If you look at the details of the repair, it shows that it found the real windows partition and it remade the bootmgr and attributed the real windows partition with type system.(I had to do a repair twice}

It all works now, Thanks!

System specs:
2×512 MB Crucial RAM
1 SATA Maxtor 250GB
1 IDE Seagate 200MB
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe (BIOS 1015)
Silicon Image SiI3114r Raid Controller
AMD Socket 939 4200+

]]> By: admin http://www.jon-kingsbury.com/2007/03/22/windows-vista-non-system-disk-or-disk-error/#comment-13 admin Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:01:40 +0000 http://www.jon-kingsbury.com/2007/03/22/windows-vista-non-system-disk-or-disk-error/#comment-13 Will do. Thank you for coming back with a solution. That was very kind on your part. I guess this problem has been broken down to a problem by MSI, and not Windows. All other motherboard I have had in the past would boot up find if a hard drive is set to Master. I guess CS (cable select) is the only option to boot an O/S normally when using an MSI motherboard. Will do.

Thank you for coming back with a solution. That was very kind on your part.

I guess this problem has been broken down to a problem by MSI, and not Windows. All other motherboard I have had in the past would boot up find if a hard drive is set to Master. I guess CS (cable select) is the only option to boot an O/S normally when using an MSI motherboard.

]]> By: scuttleclun http://www.jon-kingsbury.com/2007/03/22/windows-vista-non-system-disk-or-disk-error/#comment-12 scuttleclun Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:36:26 +0000 http://www.jon-kingsbury.com/2007/03/22/windows-vista-non-system-disk-or-disk-error/#comment-12 OK I've fixed my problem, maybe you all have the same problem? I'm using a PATA drive as the main boot drive and two SATA drives to hold data. The PATA drive had its jumper set to master. If you change it to CS cable select then the PC boots just fine. Check your PATA/IDE drives jumper. Set it to CS not Master. OK I’ve fixed my problem, maybe you all have the same problem?

I’m using a PATA drive as the main boot drive and two SATA drives to hold data. The PATA drive had its jumper set to master. If you change it to CS cable select then the PC boots just fine.

Check your PATA/IDE drives jumper. Set it to CS not Master.

]]> By: scuttleclun http://www.jon-kingsbury.com/2007/03/22/windows-vista-non-system-disk-or-disk-error/#comment-11 scuttleclun Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:30:09 +0000 http://www.jon-kingsbury.com/2007/03/22/windows-vista-non-system-disk-or-disk-error/#comment-11 I have the same problem with an MSI motherboard but with win XP. XP installs great, but won't boot from the HD unless the install CD disk is in the CD drive. I think its the MSI boot sequence thats broken not vista or XP as it only does this on the MSI Mobo that I have. I have the same problem with an MSI motherboard but with win XP. XP installs great, but won’t boot from the HD unless the install CD disk is in the CD drive.
I think its the MSI boot sequence thats broken not vista or XP as it only does this on the MSI Mobo that I have.

]]> By: emlak http://www.jon-kingsbury.com/2007/03/22/windows-vista-non-system-disk-or-disk-error/#comment-9 emlak Sun, 22 Apr 2007 15:56:24 +0000 http://www.jon-kingsbury.com/2007/03/22/windows-vista-non-system-disk-or-disk-error/#comment-9 thankss thankss

]]> By: admin http://www.jon-kingsbury.com/2007/03/22/windows-vista-non-system-disk-or-disk-error/#comment-7 admin Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:29:31 +0000 http://www.jon-kingsbury.com/2007/03/22/windows-vista-non-system-disk-or-disk-error/#comment-7 I'm actually going to give Microsoft a call this week. I thought this problem was resolved, but it has not been resolved. What Stokhof listed above is the exact same problem I am experiencing.. I’m actually going to give Microsoft a call this week. I thought this problem was resolved, but it has not been resolved. What Stokhof listed above is the exact same problem I am experiencing..

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