Dimension C521 deleting Windows completely off of hard drive

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My Dimension C521 has had a bit of a bad habit of deleting windows right off the hard drive. I decided I would try to run it again, and it didn't work. With the error it gave me (below), I knew immediately that i needed to reinstall windows. The whole reason i wanted to get it up and running was so i could buy an ISO for my Inspiron 1545, but turns out i had to fix that to get an ISO for the Dimension. I did it and it worked for about a week, but now its uninstalled again. Help?


ERROR: Diskette 0 drive seek failiure! Press F1 to continue, or F2 to enter setup.


Upon pressing F1, it would say "No boot device detected, enter the restore disk (or sm like that i havent checked it in a while) and press F1 to continue, or F2 to enter setup. F2 led me to the BIOS, which i changed around the boot order a bit so that bootable hard drive was 1 and USB Device was 2.

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