You guys have helped me in the past, which I appreciate, so I'm gonna see if you can help with this issue.

I had a power outage last night and when I turned the computer back on this morning, it says that error. "Disk Boot Failure - Insert system disk and press enter"

I do not have a working CD drive in the computer so I hope that doesn't have anything to do with it.

Thanks for the help!
Melanie

You are going to need to be able to boot the XP Recovery Console from an XP install CD or one created from a downloaded .iso file. Tough to do without a working CD/DVD drive. The easiest thing to do is install a good CD drive.

You can try to create a bootable USB flash drive that has the Recovery Console on it. Some people have been successful doing this but it's a bit of work.

The reason you need to do this is to be able to run chkdsk /r from the Recovery Console since the most likely cause of your problem is a corrupted file system.

Well what I see is that your Windows are corrupted and you need to boot it with a bootable Wndows cd.Follow the instructions to install the windows.

Hope this will help you


Regards