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11/19/2004 4:23:04 AM EDT
I'm in real need on this one. I turned on my PC this morning, and as the power cam on I heard a CD whirring in the drive, where my son had left it to play a game. No big deal, as this has happened countless times, so I pressed the eject button.

Suddenly, instead of the screen starting up Windows (XP Home Ed.), all I see is a black screen with this message:

Non-System disk or disk error
                    Replace and strike any key when ready



Never seen that before, but I hit the space bar...the screen flickered for a moment, then nothing. The message stayed there. I repeated a few time and got the same result. I turned it off and waited a few minutes-same thing all over. I keep this machine well maintained, always protecting and searching for viruses, spyware.

Now what?  
11/19/2004 4:24:23 AM EDT
[#1]
Clear out all drive, make sure the floppy is out. Then reboot.
11/19/2004 4:25:13 AM EDT
[#2]
Is there a floppy disk in the drive?  If so, eject it and then try to boot up.
11/19/2004 4:27:55 AM EDT
[#3]
if you don't have a floppy in the drive or a cd in the cd rom it means your hard drive just took a shit inside your computer.  

should be able to get a new hard drive for cheap.

maxtor hard drive
11/19/2004 4:28:08 AM EDT
[#4]

Quoted:
Clear out all drive, make sure the floppy is out. Then reboot.



+1

It sounds like either your CD is set as a boot drive or there is a 3.5" floppy in the drive and it's trying to boot from that.
11/19/2004 4:28:46 AM EDT
[#5]
I sounds like you still have a cd-rom in there. take it out while the power is still on, then reboot.
11/19/2004 4:35:20 AM EDT
[#6]
if it was the cd, it would have to be a bootable cd for it to error out. (IE. windows cd, antivirus cd)  a normal non bootable cd won't do anything because there is no boot information on it and the pc skips over it.  
11/19/2004 4:51:38 AM EDT
[#7]

or there is a 3.5" floppy in the drive and it's trying to boot from that.


Bingo! I haven't used that in years, but Daughter #1 did so last night. You guys are great-thanks for the quick and helpful responses.