Last night the pc was working fine,I shut it down and today when I turned it on,all I get is " disk boot failure,insert system disk and press enter "
At first when on the screen is all blue with HP invent,I have never seen that before?
I have xp
Please help

The HP logo screen has probably set itself to cover the BIOS POST.

There is a setting in the BIOS Setup to show either the BIOS POST or the Logo Screen.

On my HP pressing the Esc key will shift from the Logo to the BIOS POST.

That being said it appears that your BIOS boot sector was corrupted somehow.

A possible try would be to unplug the computer for a few minutes & try try again.

Otherwise what HP disks do you have? Also what is the exact HP model?

Originally Posted by jephree

The HP logo screen has probably set itself to cover the BIOS POST.

There is a setting in the BIOS Setup to show either the BIOS POST or the Logo Screen.

On my HP pressing the Esc key will shift from the Logo to the BIOS POST.

That being said it appears that your BIOS boot sector was corrupted somehow.

A possible try would be to unplug the computer for a few minutes & try try again.

Otherwise what HP disks do you have? Also what is the exact HP model?

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If I hit the ESC key on boot up I get " select bbpt device"
1= CW058D ATAPI CD-R-RW
2= HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8160B
3=Floppy
4=SCSI Device

The pc is a HP Pavillion 522N
I have cds from HP that say " system recovery win xp home edition disc 1=thru 7

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http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...45#bph07145_cp

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