Having problems with a laptop

[VaeVictus]

EDIT: Thanks Freshfish...I'm a moron. I'll try and clear this up a bit.

Recently my friend formatted his HD on his Hitachi MX-133. When he rebooted after the format the laptop POSTS, but gives a "non system disk error" after the POST. It gives this error if the CD-ROM drive is in, if the 3.5 drive is in and if nothing at all is in the drive bay slot. Why is he getting this error?

Thanks!

 

[FreshFish]

What?? No Comprendo...

 

[dkozloski]

It's not giving you an error it is telling you what's what. Formatting wiped out the system so it is not to be found. Put a bootable disk in the CD drive or a bootable disk in the floppy drive and load a new operating system.