Had a similar problem in a fairly new (under 1 year) PB myself, the hard drive
was shot.

HTH

Jose



Jim Cook wrote:

> Hello,
>
>      A customer brought me a Packard Bell Legend 130CD, Pentium 100Mhz.
> computer that just started displaying the following message during boot up:
>
> "Insert bootable media in the appropriate drive"
>
> The customer advised it just recently started doing this.  You can hit the
> reset button or Ctrl-Alt-Delete when the message displays and the computer
> boots normaly.  This happens only during a cold boot.  The bios boot
> sequence is set to boot the floppy first and then hard drive.  I reversed
> this to boot from the hard drive first and got the same message.  The floppy
> drive, 1.44 MB does work and the computer can be booted from a floppy disk.
> Any ideas?  Thanks
>
> Jim Cook
> Jim's Coomputer Systems