A booting problem

[rimmer]

Every time i boot my PC i get this message

"Boot From Atapi CD-ROM
Disk boot faliure insert system disk and press enter"

This results me in putting in the Windows XP Pro cd into the drive to boot.

I want to know how to solve this problem ie not putting in the cd every time i start my PC.

My BIOS is set to boot floppy,hdd-0,CD-ROM and there is no floopy disk in the floppy drive when i boot. I tried reinstalling the windows Xp but still does not work.
this is my system

Motherboard LEX BN790TM
AMD Athlon 200 XP
128MB DDR
40GB
64MB GEforce

Any help or suggestions i would be very grateful

Thanks

 

[jmsilver]

Try booting from IDE first and cdrom second. No reason to have it set up to boot from the floppy under normal operating conditions anyway.

 

[rimmer]

thxs for the suggestion

i tried it but i still get that message to put the Windows Xp cd in.

 

[Bardic]

It sounds like your HD doesn't have a bootable partition. The only time I have had it skip the HD-0 is on a blank harddrive.

You might try downloading Part from www.ranish.com and check the partition to make sure it is bootable. I also use part to switch from "Unknown IPL" to "Standard IPL", sometimes that fixes boot problems.

 

[rimmer]

Hello there

I went to the website and downloaded ver 2.43. then i went to part240 to copy part.exe into floppy. I went to part and highlighted Master Boot Record and changed
MBR executable code to standard IPL and saved by pressing F2.

After pressing ESC a message saying

"Invalid setting in the MSDOS.sys file
starting.......
Type the name of the command interpreter eg(C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM)"

this is problem i do not know what to do so i resetted the PC

any advice please thxs