New Boot-up error

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I have used this same computer and Windows XP for several years. Out of
nowhere, 2 days ago, I received an error box while the computer was
booting-up. I have gotten the same error again yesterday and today during
boot-up. The error comes in a rectangular gray box and it reads:

Windows - No Disk
There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive.

Any suggestions on how to make it stop?
 
sounds like your hard disk has failed, just for laughs, check your floppy
drive to see if you left something in it, if so remove it, and try again.
I hope you have backups of important data.
 
wpr1106 said:
I have used this same computer and Windows XP for several years. Out of
nowhere, 2 days ago, I received an error box while the computer was
booting-up. I have gotten the same error again yesterday and today during
boot-up. The error comes in a rectangular gray box and it reads:

Windows - No Disk
There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive.

Any suggestions on how to make it stop?
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Can you still boot into Windows?
 
Yes, I can click out of the box and the boot-up continues just like normal.
All of my programs seem to be working properly also. It is just the
aggravation of this new error box. Thanks.
 
This seems to be of some left-off installation issue. Whenever you try to
install anything from CD or something and it requires restart to complete the
installation then if you remove the CD somehow and later forget to place in
again, then you get such errors. It's a partial setup installation issue and
doesn't have anything related to your normal windows operations. However,
your intended setup programme might not work due to this because the setup
requires you to place-in the disk.
 
It's a good idea to remember that respondents cannot
see your PC and that you must report exactly what you
see. Sgopus thought that your Windows installation was
history, and I thought the same but thought it best to
ask for your clarification.

As others said, the message is probably a left-over from
some installation process. They can be very, very hard
to get rid of. As a first step you should determine ***which***
disk it refers to, by inserting a formatted floppy disk as soon
as the Windows startup process commences.
 
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