December 6th 03, 06:20 PM
>-----Original Message-----
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Fairly new Sony computer now shows an error message at
>>boot up; a few clicks on "Cancel" allows it to boot,
but
>>I would like to know what is wrong. Can anyone help an
>>old man with this? Message is as follows:
>>"There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk
into
>>drive\Device\harddisk1\DR4."
>>Thank you for any assistance.
>>
>>
>>.
>Does the computer try to access the floppy drive on
>bootup, the light will come on and you will hear it
>shudder. It maybe that your bios is set to boot from
>drive A first. Go into the bios and make sure the
>computer is set to boot from C first, or whatever letter
>your harddrive is.
>.
>Thank you for responding. The A drive does not make a
noise, the light simply comes on for a short period.
This is a problem that just started, and the computer
booted okay for some weeks before this came up. If I can
find time (health and family matters may delay me for
about a week from any attempts to find out how to go
about going into bios) I will see if I can utilize your
suggestion. At age 68, the "help" files are about as
useless as can be, and none give any directions on how to
do what they are talking about. I guess the computer
world doesn't want anyone who isn't trained in their
language and acronyms. Thanks again, I hope I can get
this solved next week. Don
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Fairly new Sony computer now shows an error message at
>>boot up; a few clicks on "Cancel" allows it to boot,
but
>>I would like to know what is wrong. Can anyone help an
>>old man with this? Message is as follows:
>>"There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk
into
>>drive\Device\harddisk1\DR4."
>>Thank you for any assistance.
>>
>>
>>.
>Does the computer try to access the floppy drive on
>bootup, the light will come on and you will hear it
>shudder. It maybe that your bios is set to boot from
>drive A first. Go into the bios and make sure the
>computer is set to boot from C first, or whatever letter
>your harddrive is.
>.
>Thank you for responding. The A drive does not make a
noise, the light simply comes on for a short period.
This is a problem that just started, and the computer
booted okay for some weeks before this came up. If I can
find time (health and family matters may delay me for
about a week from any attempts to find out how to go
about going into bios) I will see if I can utilize your
suggestion. At age 68, the "help" files are about as
useless as can be, and none give any directions on how to
do what they are talking about. I guess the computer
world doesn't want anyone who isn't trained in their
language and acronyms. Thanks again, I hope I can get
this solved next week. Don