Computer BOOTING up fine one day and next day comes up with boot failure,  Have gone into bios and put to boot from CD etc as suggested with XP disk, but when I get to C:\ windows prompt don't know what to do.  In Bios originally I had FLOPPY: not found, CDRom not found, SCSI not found (what is this?) and then NETwork OK and then it says insert diskette to reboot which I don't have.  Only have XP disk.  Now  I have put Floppy first boot up, then CD rom then scsi and nothing else to boot from.
Have unplugged everything from computer other than MOUSE and keyboard.  Anyhelp really appreciated.  Am using a friends laptop now with internet access but would like to get my one working and /or retrieve at LEAST my files/emails.
Just adding that unable to boot in safemode (F8) have tried giving the computer a good dusting and clean up and get to same place as before "insert boot diskette in A:".
Also just before this Novell Network Ready Firmkware has followig:
RPL ROM ADR : 0007 95cF 83E3
RPL ROM IRQ 5
RPL ROM P10 CC00
RPL ROM FFC 5
Boot failureAre you saying none of your drives are being DETECTED by the BIOS ? ?
If so a re-install will not work.
Re-installing Windows will wipe all your data.

What exactly does it say on this XP CD ? ?

You may want to unplug the machine for 5 or 10 minutes and then see if the BIOS picks up the drives.
What issues were you having that led up to this ? ?
They may provide a clue as to what's wrong...