HELP! Odd Boot up error Eltora windows XP tower

[bahjan]

Hi,

I just bought a second hand Eltora XP tower - not expecting miracles, but I would like it to be as described stable/working. When it arrived, the on switch seemed sticky, (thought it was because of non-use) booted up - all working well, then suddenly without warning the power died. I thought it was just a bad connection on the switch, as the psu seems okay, but this morning I tried booting up and got an error I've never seen before:

'media detected in drive a: non-bootable'

Trouble is there was no media in drive a.

Was supplied with fresh install of XP and as working - didn't pay a lot but I did ask whether there were any problems to be told it was working

I would like to contact the seller a.s.a.p. but any advice appreciated. Thanks
bahjan.

[jonyjoe81]

My advice is to do a chkdsk c: /f, anytime you have an abnormal shutdown of windows there might be some file corruption on the hard drive. These will produce strange errors during bootup.