mikey5194 Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 I have a pc, that currently is not functional. Its windows xp and no brand, so i'm guessing it is a custom built pc. when i have wired everything up, and switched it on, it take a while at the start. It sits there and says Detecting Ide Drives. Then after about 40 seconds, it brings a list down sayingPrimary Slave: NoneSecondary Slave: NoneAnd so fourth until there are four of them. Then it comes up with some bits that i cant remeber, but it is saying that it has found the hard drive. Then it says;BOOT DISC FAILURE, PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM BOOT DISC Then you press enter, and it says the same thing after about another 40 seconds of waiting. But i have set the floppy disc as the 3rd boot device, after, 1. HDD-1, 2.HDD-O. And wired it all up properly. So When i Press enter why does it not search in the floppy drive?i cant create a boot disc, because i dont have the original windows xp disc with any of the windows xp's that i own. How would i go about aquiring one?Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 Does it list any hard drives at all? The only legal way of acquiring a Windows XP disc would be to buy one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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