NEC Start up disk ??

[larivblt]

NEC Ready 9520 on start up loads bios checks memory then i get an error "drive not ready insert boot disk in drive a: " do i need a special disk my windows 98 startup disk will not work i know the disk is good it works in my new pc

[Jason Padgett]

Is this a new problem? Do you have an OS installed on that drive that is now inaccesible or is the hard drive empty?

[larivblt]

well i just got this pc from a friend and it was working before he removed the hard drive the drive that i installed has win95 installed on it the drive works in a nother pc that i have but not in this NEC i also removed the hard drive and restarted got the same problem and the floppy also works on the other pc could the board be gone?

[highrisemech]

See if the harddrive is detected during boot up.

[larivblt]

does not detect hard drives. replaced ribbons hard drives incorrect format. reformatted is now working thank you