Just a few days ago, my windows ME (have 2 computers, that's how I'm here) started to have this problem. Totally out of the blue. It won't start up. It makes the "beep" sound, but then when it says "searching for boot record from..." floppy and cd rom drive, it says not found, then says "boot failure please insert boot diskette into A: press any key when ready" Can anyone help me? I'm no good with computers and neither is the rest of my family, so I don't know where else to turn. I can upload some pictures of what it goes through in a few days time if that would help.