Hey guys, I'm working on a Dell Dimension C521 and am having a bizarre problem.
It is used in an office and I installed earlier today a 300 GB hard drive into it, formatted and re-installed windows. Now when the computer goes to boot, it gives me a "diskette drive 0 seek failure" error, which I know is almost exclusive to floppy disk drives. The hard drive itself works fine (in fact, I am typing you this message from that very same Dell). Once I got booted up, I checked the My Computer section and it sees a floppy drive.
One problem: There is not, and never has been (to my knowledge), a floppy disk drive installed on this computer. I went into the system setup, and sure enough that phantom floppy drive was first in the boot order. I moved it all the way down to the bottom of the list, even disabling it, and tried booting up again with the new hard drive first. I still got the same error.
Any tips on why this may be happening? While I realize it is not a critical problem, I am trying to make the message go away so that the secretary can boot her computer and not constantly press F1 every time. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Brian
It is used in an office and I installed earlier today a 300 GB hard drive into it, formatted and re-installed windows. Now when the computer goes to boot, it gives me a "diskette drive 0 seek failure" error, which I know is almost exclusive to floppy disk drives. The hard drive itself works fine (in fact, I am typing you this message from that very same Dell). Once I got booted up, I checked the My Computer section and it sees a floppy drive.
One problem: There is not, and never has been (to my knowledge), a floppy disk drive installed on this computer. I went into the system setup, and sure enough that phantom floppy drive was first in the boot order. I moved it all the way down to the bottom of the list, even disabling it, and tried booting up again with the new hard drive first. I still got the same error.
Any tips on why this may be happening? While I realize it is not a critical problem, I am trying to make the message go away so that the secretary can boot her computer and not constantly press F1 every time. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Brian
