Is there any chance that there already is some diskette in the floppy 
drive?  On some machines, if the BIOS is set to check A: first and it finds 
a non-bootable diskette there, it cannot proceed to look for other boot 
devices....

David Gillett


On 18 Feb 2007 at 17:00, Rick D'Alton wrote:

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> 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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