Non system disk or disk error

[Guest]

I have XP Home edition. When I swithced it on it comes with message "Non
System disk or Disk error"

Any idea?

 

[Guest]

I have XP Home edition. When I swithced it on it comes with message "Non
System disk or Disk error"

Any idea?

Have you got your BIOS set to start up from other than the Hard Disk?
Looks like you may have the BIOS looking at a floppy drive?

 

[Guest]

I have XP Home edition. When I swithced it on it comes with message "Non
System disk or Disk error"

Any idea?

Does the machine boot at all?

 

[Guest]

have you got a floppy disc in the machine, if so take it out of the floppy
drive and try again, hope this helps......pete

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have XP Home edition. When I swithced it on it comes with message "Non
System disk or Disk error"

Any idea?

Remove the floppy disk from the floppy disk drive.

 

[Infosink]

Take the floppy out of the floppy drive.

 

[Glen]

Do you have a floppy in the drive. Check in the bios that the hard drive is
the first boot drive.

Error message when you start your computer with a non-system disk
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812492

 

[Leythos]

Have you got your BIOS set to start up from other than the Hard Disk?
Looks like you may have the BIOS looking at a floppy drive?

Remove any diskettes from the floppy drive, check even if you think
you've not put one in. If this fails, does the BIOS POST show the drive
as being detected? If it shows, then it could be that the drive is bad
or corrupted. If the drive doesn't show in the POST, then try and add it
back in, if still unable, then the drive may have died.

 

[Guest]

No there is no any Floppy disk in the system.

have you got a floppy disc in the machine, if so take it out of the floppy
drive and try again, hope this helps......pete
--
if at first you dont succeed try try LINUX!!!

Please take my answers anyway you like, i am no expert but i do like to try
and help anyone i can ;-)

 

[Guest]

No floppy disk at all in the system

Take the floppy out of the floppy drive.

 

[Guest]

What do you mean by saying "If the drive doesn't show in the POST, then try
and add it ". How do you notice if the drive shows in the POST? If so, how
can you add it?

 

[Leythos]

What do you mean by saying "If the drive doesn't show in the POST, then try
and add it ". How do you notice if the drive shows in the POST? If so, how
can you add it?

If you don't know what the "POST" is, then you need to take the computer
to a local shop and have them determine what is wrong.

POST is the Power On Self Test, the part of the screen, on some
computers, that appears before Windows, that shows your memory, drives,
settings, IRQ's, etc.... Some vendors disable the display of the POST.

 

[Infosink]

Check in the BIOS what is the first boot device .. remove any non-bootable
media from that device. If this is not the case you have a bigger problem on
your hands and will have to go on a process of elimination journey to figure
out just what is causing this:


- FIXBOOT from Windows XP's Recovery console sometimes works [boot from XP
CD-ROM press 'R' for the Recovery Console] and if it does, the harddrive
should reboot to Windows like nothing ever happened. Fly me there and I will
do it for $750.00 .. plus you pay my airfare, lodging and any applicable
taxes and levies, tolls etc.

- Reset BIOS to defaults using motherboard's BIOS reset switch or reset
jumnper sometimes works - the harddrive(s) gets rerecognized and everything
goes chipper. I can do it for you for $990.75 - you pay flight, lodgings,
and any applicable taxes, levies, tolls etc. .

- Replacing the harddrive sometimes works .. well .. in this case it works
only in that the hardware works .. you'd have to install Windows onto the
new drive etc. etc. If the old drive had really important data I could
arrange for data recovery for you .. $500 plus the cost of recovery from a
recovery outfit - this time my price includes shipping and handling other
than the first shipping of the harddrive to me - no guarantee that recovery
will be full though. If you need a new harddrive, fly me there and I will
replace the harddrive and install Windows for $1775.00 - you also pay for my
airfare, lodging and any applicable taxes, tolls, levies etc. Price does
include a new Maxtor 7200 RPM HDD of at least 250GB and a new copy of
Windows XP Home w SP2 incl..

I accept certified cheques, cash and money orders. Cash upon my arrival at
computer's location.

 

[Malke]

If the old drive had really important
data I could arrange for data recovery for you .. $500 plus the cost
of recovery from a recovery outfit - this time my price includes
shipping and handling other than the first shipping of the harddrive
to me - no guarantee that recovery will be full though. If you need a
new harddrive, fly me there and I will replace the harddrive and
install Windows for $1775.00 - you also pay for my airfare, lodging
and any applicable taxes, tolls, levies etc. Price does include a new
Maxtor 7200 RPM HDD of at least 250GB and a new copy of Windows XP
Home w SP2 incl..

I accept certified cheques, cash and money orders. Cash upon my
arrival at computer's location.

I'll bet you do. Got any Nigerian relatives also? On the very off-chance
that you thought you were making a humorous post, ha ha. Not.

The OP could buy a brand-new computer for less than the cost of your
dubious services. Don't do this here again.

Malke

 

[Infosink]

Nigeria - are you from Nigeria ?? - How did you know about my relatives -
are you spying on me? I can remove spyware for you. I will remove any spyare
you got from your computer. $1445.00 is my rate. Plus you pay for my airfare
there and lodging and any applicable taxes, tolls, levies etc. If there's
adware as well I can remove that as well, only that is a bit pricer at
$1750.00, again you pay the airfare, lodging and any applicable taxes, tolls
and levies on top of that.

 

[Kenny]

Have also seen this in a new PC which had a USB pen drive attached whilst
booting. If that's the case I believe it can be turned off in BIOS.

 

[Guest]

Make sure you don't have a cd in any of your drives either

 

[Guest]

I did not say I don't know what the POST is I just said how driver shows
itself during the POST

 

[Patty]

Remove any diskettes from the floppy drive, check even if you think
you've not put one in. If this fails, does the BIOS POST show the drive
as being detected? If it shows, then it could be that the drive is bad
or corrupted. If the drive doesn't show in the POST, then try and add it
back in, if still unable, then the drive may have died.

Also look for a CD in the optical drive. If the system BIOS is set to boot
to CD-Rom first and a CD is in the drive it will show the same behavior.

Patty