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Boot up disk
Name: Deborah Jeane Date: November 12, 1999 at 21:16:10 Pacific
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I just had a computer donated to my class. We received no disks with it. No CDROM. When it comes on it say insert boot up disk. What can I do?
Name: Teknophlier Date: November 12, 1999 at 23:35:50 Pacific
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I don't normally do the dos section -- I try to help 99% of the time on the windows stuff. First, more info would be helpful (win95/98) stuff like that. Second, let me double check your story and see if I can put the info I need into it... Someone donated a computer to your school/class, It has no cd-rom, and when you start it up it does a memory check takes a moment and then tries to boot some kind of operating system or OS, at which time it says "Please insert boot disk" right?? If that's right then you need something like win95 or 98 to get going if one of those isn't already installed. If you need one of those you'll have to get the "full version" not the upgrade version. Also, make sure that the computer meets the requirements for such software. If you need more help and can give me more info you can e-mail me at the address by my name or just post a response... I might not look here again just cause this isn't my normal hang-out. Hope it helps... Tek.
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Response Number 2
Name: ergmiester Date: November 12, 1999 at 23:57:00 Pacific
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Some older computers did not have a hard disk is it that old?
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Response Number 3
Name: Teknophlier Date: November 13, 1999 at 01:08:08 Pacific
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Sorry if you didn't understand me... my e-mail address IS my name... just click on teknophlier and you should be able to e-mail me. If not let me know.
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Response Number 4
Name: Ryan Cooley Date: November 13, 1999 at 14:45:12 Pacific
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Go to www.bootdisk.com and make a bootdisk from any of the downloadable images. At the command prompt (A:\>) type FDISK. IF it gives you a message that there are no fixed disks, then you need to get a harddrive for the computer. If you do not get that error, exit fdisk and at the command prompt type SYS C: If it gives you any error messages with SYS C: then yu need to partition your hard disk. If you get error with FDISK you need a hard drive. If there are not problems, you can take out the floppy disk and reboot the computer without it. Let me know what happens and I'll help you get your computer up and running.
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Response Number 5
Name: ulysses henry Date: July 21, 2000 at 06:31:43 Pacific
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i receive an message saying "error reading fdisk". Does this mean i need a new hard drive????
Summary: I have a IBM 486 and cannot get a C: or A: prompt. Every time I try to make a boot-up disk, message reads, "this is not a boot diskette" Can you tell me how to make from "scratch" a working boot-up ...
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