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the start up the bar gets almost to the end then I get this on my screen.
Floppy disk seek failed
Drive 1 not found serial ATA Sata-1
Drive 2 not found serial ATA Sata-2
Drive 3 not found serial ATA Sata-3
There is no floppy drive on the PC but I have got two external floppies
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This message you should be getting BEFORE you start booting Windows XP, these are generally what's called POST message, and relate to your system BIOS.
Your computer appears to be searching for a floppy drive (externals don't count in this case), and Serial ATA hard drives. Most computers nowadays are set to automatically detect hard drives, and your's appears to be letting you know that it hasn't found any drives on those three SATA ports. Most computers have 4 SATA ports, perhaps it does detect your drive on the fourth port?
The pictures of the cables Sprunce_M showed are found inside your case, not the back. You need to open your computer up so you can see it's guts. They will run from the motherboard to your hard drive inside your computer. You will most likely have the wide ribbon cable that runs to your optical drive as well.
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"paper work when I bought it and it states ATA Hard Drive"
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This suggests to me then that your hard drive is an IDE drive, and hence you should have that wide ribbon.