Ok.....Brandy's computer is now the one giving me trouble. The other day it was working just fine and then all of a sudden that afternoon I now have the error message "Disk Boot Failure, insert system disk and press enter." I've got no discs in either DVD drive so I know that's not the problem. When I get to Windows setup and try recovery console it can't find my MBR and when I tried to bite the bullet and do a clean reinstall of Windows I'm told that no previous version of Windows can be found and that I need the full version of XP in order to upgrade (the disc I have is apparently some kind of copy of an upgrade CD)

How fucked am I? lol

Oh I also checked the cables going to the HDD and while I'm no major expert those seem fine. I've got one going for the HDD to the motherboard and another going into the power supply casing