Your hard drives might have gone bad. I would download whatever diagnostic tool is available for the make of the hard drive and test.

>Hi,
>two laptops one is XP the other is ME face the same problem when booting, :
>system error
>insert system disk
>
>The xp one I modified the bios so the CDrom is detected first to reinstall XP but when I press enter to install fresh copy, an
>error occured saying approxinately: No hard disk in the PC. The same when I chose repair windows.
>The ME one faced the same error.
>I don't have the floppy in both of the laptops to insert the system disk. Can it be replaced by CD containing system disk? Or is there the right solution for this? Thank you.
>
>Regards
>
>Syah N