DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER [error]

[Raptor_989]

I get this message when i boot up. I have gotten past it before by holding down power button for 5 seconds untill it shuts off (ATX Micron 1GHz) waiting 3 seconds then hitting power to turn back on. I was told by tech support that it is boot up sequence drives getting confused. He said to change first boot up to C drive but all i see in the BIOS settings are IDE-0,1,2,3, SCSI, CDROM, FLOPPY and some others i dont remember. Please help me !!! i absolutely do not want to partition or reformat (TONS of important work)
THX

[Sterling_Aug]

IDE 0 = Drive C
IDE 1 = Drive D
IDE 2 = Drive E
IDE 3 = Drive F

The above all applies to physical drives only. A partitioned logical drive is NOT designated as the next IDE drive number, only as the next logical drive letter.

[Kuasimodem]

Being an unregistered poster, you probably didn't read the FAQs for this forum...

Please don't post the same question under different names and titles, it only PI$$ES OFF the regular users of this forum, like me.

Please refer to YOUR OTHER POST (http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum2/HTML/015262.html) for the answer that I already gave you.

(are you really InDireNeedOfHelp?)

PS - See that little "IP: logged" in the lower right corner of each post? The moderators can verify who you are because they know where you are.

[This message has been edited by Kuasimodem (edited 05-23-2001).]