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the computer says reboot floppy?

we have changed our harddrive as the other one was playing up. when you turn it on on the screen the writting comes up as normal at the end it says searching for boot record from floppy..not found searching for boot record from ide-0-ok and the cursor says flashing and thats it if you press a key on the keyboard it dont do nothing it says reboot floppy but i havent got one or what ever they are asking for please can anyone help me out please urgent thanks lorraine

lorraine
May 2006

Computers, Computer Hardware Computer Reboot Screen

Your old hard disk containe edht Operating Sytem for the Computer. (The softwate that makes it work.) When you removed the old hard disk you removed the Operating System as well. In order to get the PC working again, you need a recovery disk. If you don't have a floppy drive, you need to put the recovery CD into the CD drive, go into the BIOS setup (in your PCs manual) and boot from the CD Drive.

If you don't have a recovery CD then you need to get one. (PC maker or Microsoft.)

Alternatively you put your old drive back and install the new drive as the second hard disk and put all your vital data on it. Then when the first drive fails you haven't lost anything.

BTW, you don't say what you mean by 'playing up'.

Terry
May 2006