One other thought...is there a CD in the CDRom drive? The computer might 
be trying to boot from there...

Tony Mayer


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>  My Autistic daughter was given a gateway computer running WinXP PRO
> Everything was fine until a few days ago, the computer will not boot, It will 
> stop on a black screen with white letters(Remember DOS?) The error is 
> something like this
> ( WRONG DISK IN PLACE INSERT THE CORRECT BOOT DISK) I checked the dsrive, 
> nothing in place, the floppy ribbon has a small area that looks like it was poked 
> thru. I checked this ribbon and there are no wires that seem to be 
> crossed/shorted or any other visable wire issue so I purchased a new floppy drive, 
> installed it and got same error I even removed power and the ribbon off and I still 
> get error. My wonderful sweet special needs daughter feels awful that she 
> can't use it. all help appreciated
> Philippe Beaulieu
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