"Boot Disk Failure?"

If your computer comes on but says "Disk Boot Failure," first check to make sure there is no floppy disc in drive "A." Then you need to check your CMOS settings to make sure the hard disk is set up correctly.

If all CMOS settings are lost, then you probably need to replace your battery that holds these settings internally. If your battery checks good, then your motherboard could have reset these by accident, or by static shock. We have seen cheaper motherboards do this at the drop of a hat!!

If all these things check out, then you should scan your hard drive for viruses, then scan your hard drive for errors in the boot sector. In order to do either of these you must have a good bootable disk (such as your Windows startup disk). If these all check out, then you could have lost your command.com startup file, and this can be copied from your startup disk to your hard disk.

If you cannot access the hard disk, then you may have a bad hard drive, and need to have the unit brought in for repair.

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