NO! This is not good. This is really not good.

[MarineCorps]

All right I think I am scrwed at this point but oh well. I was trying to get some files off a floppy however for some reason windows said there was no floppy in the drive even through I knew there was. Anyways after trying to force windows to open the thing I got a white error screen saying "explorer" with one option: close. Well I did that. It went to the desktop, I restarted my computer to reset the bios so that the floppy was not installed. I changed the floppy setting and nothing else. Then when I saved the settings adn went on with the boot. Well I got a message saying that there was a boot failure, almost like it could not find the HD. And yet I have quaddruple checked the power cord and the EDIE cable. Both are in place. Am I screwed here or is there something I am missing?

 

[Chairman Meow]

Are you sure you didn't accidentally remove the HD from the boot order list? Make sure to check that. The list should either be just the HD, or CDROM then HD.

 

[MarineCorps]

Are you sure you didn't accidentally remove the HD from the boot order list? Make sure to check that. The list should either be just the HD, or CDROM then HD.

I checked, I set the bios so that that it looks on IDE cable one only. And I (just) checked IDE cable one and it is attached the HD.

 

[Comraddict]

you need to make bios not check floppy during boot. that is not same as having floppy in boot order. usually it is called " boot up floppy seek"

 

[MarineCorps]

you need to make bios not check floppy during boot. that is not same as having floppy in boot order. usually it is called " boot up floppy seek"

erm, I recall messing with that the first time but changing it back when i relized it wasn't what I was looking for. I booted up fine after that.