That sounds like the disk drive does not have a primary partition flagged as Active, so the BIOS Boot Strap Loader can not find the active partition on the drive to boot from. So it wants you to boot from the diskette. Normally, if you boot from the diskette to DOS, you can run DOS's FDISK and look at the Primary Master drive and see if its Primary partition is set Active, and will allow you to set it active if it is not.

It is also possible your disk drive has had its boot sector damaged and it no longer contains a valid Boot Loader (or Master Boot Record). The BIOS Boot Strap Loader will not load the disk drives Boot Loader from the first sector if it is not valid. This can be fixed on the Primary Master drive by booting with the Windows ME Startup diskette and from DOS running the command FDISK /mbr to write a new Master Boot Record on the disk drive.

It also sounds like you expect the DOS you boot from the diskette to somehow start Windows for you?

Written in response to: BIOS settings bad? (DM2: Saturday, April 8, 2006 at 2:01 pm) Responses to this message: re: BIOS settings bad? (DM2: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 at 3:41 pm)

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