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Name: rick
Date: April 21, 2001 at 18:37:18 Pacific
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I recently formatted my hard drive on my old toshiba 486 laptop. I tried to boot from a floppy, but still get a message reading, "non system disk or disk error", any suggestions? Thx, Rick



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Name: sammy
Date: April 22, 2001 at 04:24:03 Pacific
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Your CMOS battery may be dead. Try getting into set-up enable your floopy and try booting w/bootup disk. you may need to replace battery


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Name: j
Date: April 23, 2001 at 07:29:16 Pacific
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Try to boot with BOOTABLE floppy disk. It must contain command.com, io.sys and msdos.sys.


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