Is it <8gb, <2gb, <512mb etc?
Is it detected in the IDE hard drive auto detection in the BIOS setup (AMIBios/Award etc)?
Is it partitioned and formatted?

all i make is a 2 gigabyte drive with 30 megabytes of ram memory availble and amibios 486 DX4 100.
and i would get a no rom basic error to, and the hard drive is not formatted, it is found by the auto detection, even stil it doesnt like to boot up

So it gets detected and it just doesn't boot?
Boot from a bootable floppy image and run FDISK /MBR

Yep, thats the annoying trouble.
i cant really get it to boot up from a floopy either, i must have some broken rom set's

Between its pc'em x im trying out.

Alright, i had made a hard drive image, and adjusted the virtual machine to find the floppy drives, and i can sort of manage to start up ms dos install but when it restart's to get the formatting ready then it does that no rom basic system halted error again.

Did you run the "FDISK /MBR" command like I told you so last post? It should write the MBR code necessary for the HDD image to boot.

But i get this error message recently when i treid to start up and do what you said, after i where getting ready to format the drive as you told.

You can't even boot a DOS 6.22 instalation floppy? You boot one of those, press F3 to quit setup and THEN you can run that.

No i cant at all.

You said you could start MS-DOS install at one point. If you can't boot from a floppy then something is set up wrong - I have used PCem and any setup I have seen starts from floppies just fine.

Oh, and please do change the boot order (if possible) to have the floppy first. God knows if the utility that created the HDD put some weird MBR code that calls the ROM BASIC on failure.
Oh, and when creating partitions, make sure you flag one as ACTIVE on FDISK, or it won't boot as well.

hmm, its the ami winbios im useing, ill try that

You where right, it was doing a weird boot setup, and this picture explains itself

Anyone know a virtual way to get PC'em online to the internet?