hi, i am new to this forum so please bear with me i need help. I have windows 98 and xp running on my comp and suddenly today my xp wont just load an error pops up "explorer.exe - no disk there is no disk in drive a (which is my floppy drive) there are three options to cancel retry or continue" and even if a continue or cancel or anything the background appears with no desktop icons or anything and even whn i use taskmanager i can only see the processes running i cant start a new task the top colums wont just appear please help me. I have to submit a very important project tommorow which i hw not yet completed fully

i cannot enter xp in even safe mode or safe mode with networking no desktop nothing same problem

Hi Arjunkapoor_89,

Welcome to PCHF.

When you enter Windows XP, is the error message exactly the same?

Was there anything that might of caused this issue on your last session? (for example software installations).

As for Task Manager, to get your menu items back, all you need to do is double click on the outer edge of the Task Manager Window.

thanks a lot for a quick reply ill just post the exct error message. No i dont think its caused by anything during my last session But since 2 three days my startup was taking unusually long time, But i have not installed any new software recently.

the message is "Explorer.EXE - No disk"
"there is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive A:"
CANCEL TRYAGAIN CONTINUE

Hi Ar,

The only *known* possible thing that could cause this issue is malware. Did double clicking on the edge of the taskbar work? If so, in order to find the infection, we will need you to follow PCHF Prework on my signature.