no and no floppy drive on computer
yes
Drives
Diskette Drive
Identifies and defines the floppy drive attached to the FLOPPY connector on the system board. The options restrict identification of drives to USB only, Internal only, or none (Off). The Read Only option restricts the ability to boot from any floppy device.
Turn the floppy to none, and if the is an option to seek floppy on start up change that to off.
Then, there may be a floppy option in the onboard devices section, turn that off (sometimes it may say FDC, that's the floppy controller).
Then in the boot sequence section:
Boot Sequence
The computer attempts to boot from the sequence of devices specified in this list.
Make floppy the last choice.
That should do it, here's a refeerence document:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dimE520/en/SM_EN/syssetup.htm#wp1055144
Let me know how you make out....
Computer Support Specialist
Certified IT Guru since C-64 and Amiga, expert at grey areas....
it comes up that you have to put in a windows installation disc restart your ccomputer and press repair my computer
What is it set to boot off of first?
And hard drive is second ?
It should be
CD
Hard drive
then others third on down....
Was there a floppy seek option?
Do you have a windows installation disc ?
Ok, do what it says, it seems the OS still thinks there's a floppy....
"windows installation disc restart your ccomputer and press repair my computer"
Do you have vista or xp ?
Ok, that makes it easier....
Put the cd in reboot and run a repair, that should fix it....
I'll be here....