Disk boot failure, Insert system disk and press enter

Lately my comp has been shuting down by itself.... so I go and reboot it and it didn't work (it couldn't find some kinda ghost rider...) but any who...I went to bootdisk.com and dl the win98se boot disk cuz obvisously I wasn't gettin' the dos promt... I began to initialize the disk at strart up and all ran fine... afterwards I threw in my restore cd's.. Well all seemed great... till afterwards when I start my comp from cold I get this message now... stating: Disk boot failure, Insert system disk and press enter. WHAT DA? If I pres Ctrl-Alt-Dlt it pops right into windows for me... But Otherwise it don't... How can I get rid of that... What Is going on here.. Can someone please help me... Desperate... My comp is only a year and eight mths old... Windows xp Emachine.... ThanX puke: puke:

Is there a CD or floppy in the drive, that boots instead of from harddisk? Take it/them out.
In BIOS check your bootup sequence. Normally it's floppy/CD/Harddisk

Finally ressurection

Happy Happy Joy Joy.... It was nothing that at all 'cept one lil thing... My jumper pins were connected wrong... It was thinking my original master harddrive is a slave and my original slave was a now a master... after four days of searching I stumbled upon that... Re-positioned my jumpers and now all works fine.... NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :angel: :giddy: :grinthumb