Boot Failure

[Guest]

When starting up my computer i recieve the message "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTRE". I am working on Windows XP, and nothing happens when I entre the xp disk. Also when I press F8 to attempt a safe mode boot nothing happens either. Please Help!

 

[andy]

Are you getting any clicking noises? More then likely the
hard drive has failed and you need to replace it. Does
BIOS see the hard drive? What happens when you boot to
the XP disk? Does it detect any drives?

-----Original Message-----
When starting up my computer i recieve the message "DISK

BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTRE". I am
working on Windows XP, and nothing happens when I entre
the xp disk. Also when I press F8 to attempt a safe mode
boot nothing happens either. Please Help!

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Duncan.

Sometimes all you have to do is take the floppy diskette out of the drive.
;^}

RC

 

[Guest]

Andy
There are Clicking noises when I press entre once I've entred the XP Disk. how does one Boot to the XP Disk?. And Finally the floppy drive is deteced, but as I'm at another computer I'm not sure on the others, having said that the hard drive does come into action when I intially turn the computer on

----- andy wrote: ----

Are you getting any clicking noises? More then likely the
hard drive has failed and you need to replace it. Does
BIOS see the hard drive? What happens when you boot to
the XP disk? Does it detect any drives

-----Original Message----
When starting up my computer i recieve the message "DISK

BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTRE". I am
working on Windows XP, and nothing happens when I entre
the xp disk. Also when I press F8 to attempt a safe mode
boot nothing happens either. Please Help