Invalid Boot Diskette

The ticking noise could be the hard drive or a broken fan blade. The ticking noise could be the hard drive or a broken fan blade.

Ok, Sorry I had to think about this problem you are having. My guess it that your primary drive is going south, AKA going bad. Things just were not running correctly. So you decided to reinstall your operating system because your were not sure what is wrong. (this is a normal responce). One way or another you had a windows boot disk in drive A: Ya left it in there while installing windows. Where window now uses the floppy diskette as the boot drive, hence windows ask you to put it back in the floppy in order to continue. To correct this rather than messing with registry keys. Go back to the bios. Go to Boot settings. First boot device should be floppy, 2nd device should be cd-rom drive & 3rd device should be hard drive. Put your windows cd into the cd-rom drive & boot to it. When the pc starts to boot press the F8 key every two seconds. This will bring up a boot menue. Pick your cd-rom as where you want to go. The windows cd will fireup & start to install. The pc will list: To Boot to cd-rom press any key. (press the space bar). Windows will begain to install. There will come a time when windows will restart (again normal) & you will see the: to boot to cd-rom press any key..... DO Not Press Anthing! Just let it go & windows will continue to install. When windows finishes than you can remove the CD. Remember that clicking. Well if windows fails or the system seems weird, that clicking noise your hearing is most likely the hard drive. You can find the name of the hard drive on a white sticker on the drive. Go to the Mfg's web site & download the drive's utilities, that will test the drive for problems. Usually you can create bootable floppys or even creat a bootable CD. Instructions on how to download & creat a floppy or CD will also be on the Mfg's site. Hand tight you'll get through this.... Ok, Sorry I had to think about this problem you are having. My guess it that your primary drive is going south, AKA going bad. Things just were not running correctly. So you decided to reinstall your operating system because your were not sure what is wrong. (this is a normal responce). One way or another you had a windows boot disk in drive A: Ya left it in there while installing windows. Where window now uses the floppy diskette as the boot drive, hence windows ask you to put it back in the floppy in order to continue. To correct this rather than messing with registry keys. Go back to the bios. Go to Boot settings. First boot device should be floppy, 2nd device should be cd-rom drive & 3rd device should be hard drive. Put your windows cd into the cd-rom drive & boot to it. When the pc starts to boot press the F8 key every two seconds. This will bring up a boot menue. Pick your cd-rom as where you want to go. The windows cd will fireup & start to install. The pc will list: To Boot to cd-rom press any key. (press the space bar). Windows will begain to install. There will come a time when windows will restart (again normal) & you will see the: to boot to cd-rom press any key..... DO Not Press Anthing! Just let it go & windows will continue to install. When windows finishes than you can remove the CD. Remember that clicking. Well if windows fails or the system seems weird, that clicking noise your hearing is most likely the hard drive. You can find the name of the hard drive on a white sticker on the drive. Go to the Mfg's web site & download the drive's utilities, that will test the drive for problems. Usually you can create bootable floppys or even creat a bootable CD. Instructions on how to download & creat a floppy or CD will also be on the Mfg's site. Hand tight you'll get through this....

There isn't any disk in the floppy drive There isn't any disk in the floppy drive