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my 486 wont load anything
Name: tim powell Date: March 19, 2000 at 09:49:21 Pacific
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I just got a laptop, its a 486, it has a 200 mb hd and a floppy drive. It has dos 6.22 but it wont load anything from a disk. i have a couple disk sets of windows 3.11 but it load any of the. when i go to a: it brings up the drive, i've tried typing in various commands, setup,setup.exe,ect.. every time i try it tells me "general failure reading drive A" It also has a drive b: which i guess controlls the floppy to, but it comes up with the same error message.I'm entirely outa ideas. could sombodie please help me? thanks
get a computer that supports y2k then try to load something
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Response Number 2
Name: tim Date: March 19, 2000 at 14:10:58 Pacific
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"get a computer that supports y2k then try to load something" is that supposed to be a joke?
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Response Number 3
Name: Owen Prince Date: March 19, 2000 at 18:53:41 Pacific
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That was a joke but a bad one. Just go into the set up and make sure the a drive is set at 1.44. If all the numbers are set in the bios setup then you may have a bad drive or a bad disk. A 486 is still a useable computer so do not let any one bug you about it. You just need to have it setup correctly.
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