Hi, I formatted my c: drive without adding any switch after it. Now when I try to install dos 6.2 back onto it it says non system disk. I can boot to a: from a windows 95 recovery disk but it won't take anything else. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks for your help! I am trying to install windows 95 back onto hard drive from cd rom copy. Logan said:Boot with your DOS disk again. From a A:\> prompt, type: SYS A: C: and press Enter. This makes C: bootable I did that and I can boot to c: but every disk other than my boot disk my a: drive says non system disk so I am unable to load anything back onto my drive. ANY help would be SO appreciated.

I'm a little confused. Do you have a DOS 6.2 boot disk and a Windows 95 recovery disk? I would concentrate on one OS for the moment. If you don't have a DOS 6.2 boot disk, download one from bootdisk.com. Try to boot with that, redo the sys a: c: command, copy your other DOS 6.2 disks to c:\dos (md dos; copy a:*.* c:\dos). Or you can download the Windows 95 bootdisk with cd-rom support and try that instead.

Cyntia - it sounds like you are starting your computer with a floppy disk in drive a: Your machine should be able to boot up without a floppy. If you did the sys c: thing properly, you should have seen a 'system transferred' message. Once the system is transferred, any disk (other than a boot disk, of course) in the a: drive at startup WILL return the message 'non system disk' - that's how it works.

Thanks everyone for your help...as you can tell I have no idea what I am doing! I will try your suggestions...you all are great. Thanks!!!! Cynthia

If you can boot to a C:\ then if you are trying to load the OS from floppy put the floppy in A drive dont restart just type in A:install or A:setup whichever command used to load the OS which can be found by switching to A: and type dir /w/p look for setup.exe or install.exe find out which one is on the disk and type it in. Just in case you dont know the /w/p is show files in wide format and if there are to many on the disk to be seen in one screen pause at each screen full. Another way to have made your HDD bootable would have been fdisk and option 2 make partition active.

Start over by booting from drive A: and format over. Whatever version is on the boot disk should be used to SYS C:. There is something wrong here. Everyone is assuming you get a "...wrong DOS version" error message, but you said non system disk. That Message means one of the boot files (IO.SYS, MS-DOS.SYS or COMMAND.COM) is missing or corrupt. As is say you should start over with a different boot disk.

Please help write the parameters to format MBR Ex. format c: /MBR ???? Which is the correct way? Thanks