Error on startup: "Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter".
Original title: start problem
My wifes at startup computer appears with the message disk boot failure insert system dicand press ENTER.
If you press on enter the computer starts with having to put in the system disk.
any ideas please.
Kim
- Startup options is incorrectly set in BIOS Basic Input Output System ().
- A non bootable CD is in your CD player
- You don't have any boot device
- You have installed a new hard drive
- The hard drive is not properly connected
- Your system files have been infected
Verify that one of these reasons may be the cause of your problem and post back with the details to help us to help you better.
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1. what changes have been made on the computer until you have encountered the problem?
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