BOOT FAILURE

hi all,

perhaps my situation is the same as Paul's. when i turn
on my computer [WINDOWS ME], i get the following:

SEARCHING FOR BOOT RECORD FROM FLOPPY: NOT FOUND
SEARCH FOR BOOT RECORD FROM CDROM: NOT FOUND

BOOT FAILURE
INSERT BOOT DISKETTE IN A:

so please advise how I should move forward. thanks a
million.

Is your BIOS setup to boot from the first hard drive? It sure looks like it
is not, based on your message.

Did you try booting from a floppy to check to see if your hard drive was
recognized?

"Maria" wrote in message
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hi all,

perhaps my situation is the same as Paul's. when i turn
on my computer [WINDOWS ME], i get the following:

SEARCHING FOR BOOT RECORD FROM FLOPPY: NOT FOUND
SEARCH FOR BOOT RECORD FROM CDROM: NOT FOUND

BOOT FAILURE
INSERT BOOT DISKETTE IN A:

so please advise how I should move forward. thanks a
million.

"Maria" wrote:

hi all,

perhaps my situation is the same as Paul's. when i turn
on my computer [WINDOWS ME], i get the following:

SEARCHING FOR BOOT RECORD FROM FLOPPY: NOT FOUND
SEARCH FOR BOOT RECORD FROM CDROM: NOT FOUND

BOOT FAILURE
INSERT BOOT DISKETTE IN A:

so please advise how I should move forward. thanks a
million.

It sounds like your hard drive has been damaged or failed in some way,
as the failure message does not mention it in any way.

Try booting your computer with a WindowsMe (or Windows98) startup disk
(download one from www.bootdisk.com if you don't have one already).

Watch the screen carefully during the boot process for any error
messages, and especially for any that mention anything about the hard
drive, and write down the complete text of these messages.

At the A:\ prompt enter the following command:

DIR C:

and post the results back here.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

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