Out of nowhere I turned computer on and got this message. It says press key
to Restart which does nothing. I reinstalled the entire XP operating system
and it appeared to be working until I restarted it and up pops this same
message again.
Thanks
Nancy

Nancylee wrote:
> Out of nowhere I turned computer on and got this message. It says press key
> to Restart which does nothing. I reinstalled the entire XP operating system
> and it appeared to be working until I restarted it and up pops this same
> message again.

Take the floppy disk out of its drive.

No really, that's the most common cause of this message. If you haven't
got a floppy disk or CD in the machine, the computer is running through
the boot sector and unable to find the boot loader, NTLDR. Disk-checking
utilities may be in order.

David
Stardate 5724.4

Thank you - that is the 1st time I saw that msg - it usually says non-OS disk
in drive or something like that

"David Trimboli" wrote:

> Nancylee wrote:
> > Out of nowhere I turned computer on and got this message. It says press key
> > to Restart which does nothing. I reinstalled the entire XP operating system
> > and it appeared to be working until I restarted it and up pops this same
> > message again.
>
> Take the floppy disk out of its drive.
>
> No really, that's the most common cause of this message. If you haven't
> got a floppy disk or CD in the machine, the computer is running through
> the boot sector and unable to find the boot loader, NTLDR. Disk-checking
> utilities may be in order.
>
> David
> Stardate 5724.4
>