[Pro]Problems after boot

Thanks Robert M,
I tried the cold boot several times and got the same results each time...'cannot load dos! any key to retry'.

Check the BIOS settings on the computer.

Have you tried booting with the Maxtor diskette in another computer?

Does the diskette have an autoexec.bat file on it? What is its contents?

Are the BIOS setting those at F2? If so, I have checked them.
I haven't tried booting with the Maxtor diskette in another computer.

The diskette has:
ACTCD 23kb System file
Choice 8kb MS-DOS Application
Config 1kb system file
DM 1kb Ms-dos batch file
DM Zip 1,204kb application
Find RDSK 2kb application
IBMBIO 26kb MS-Dos application
IBMDOS 33kb MS-Dos application
LETTER 1kb MS-Dos batch file
NWCDEX 22kb application
splash 4kb application

plus:
vdisk 5kb system file
xman 5kb application

The hard drive is not failing.
You may have made a diskette for a different type of hardware than you have.
Do you have any other known good bootable floppy diskettes that you have made or received from Dell??

If you can view the two batch files in a different computer, it mayl give a clue as to what is causing the message.

Thanks Robert,
Sorry about the late response. My plan now is to use the latest advice on how to make an Ultimate Boot Disk, because I really feel that the ones that I made weren't done right.