Remove any disk that might be in your floppy drive and try restarting 
the computer.

Tom Mayer

Rick D'Alton wrote:
> Hello My Name is Rick D'Alton, and my Gateway desktop (WinXPpro w/svpk2) won't boot up. Can anybody help? The other day I ran the 'defrag' prog and and left it alone to do its thing. When I came back the screen was in dos mode with this message, and the computer was making a 'tic toc' (like a clock) noise.
> "Invalid Boot diskette...Insert BOOT diskette in a:
>  
> Is there software that I can run from A: to do diags, or repair, or retrieve some data folders that I forgot to back up??
>  
> Thanks,
> Rick D'Alton
>
>   

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