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non system disk or disk error
Name: Caolon Date: October 20, 2000 at 22:41:49 Pacific
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I got a compter for free, which worked fine and gave me the DOS c: prompt, but when I got it home and booted it up, it gave me the message non system disk or disk error. I have tried booting it with a disk and then taking the disk out and "press any key" but this does not seem to make a dif. After some research, I beleive that I may need to re-install DOS, but have no idea how to do that, or where to download it. If this is not true, then any help would be much appreciated! Thanks
Name: mike Date: October 21, 2000 at 05:42:28 Pacific
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i have the same problem with a computer i have please let me know what we have to do to get them up and running if you find out.
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Response Number 2
Name: Jon Fox Date: October 21, 2000 at 06:58:13 Pacific
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I'd say that the HDD is on it's way out. I have a '286 which has exactly the same erratic behaviour. Although it could just be a case of the system files being corrupted, and as you mentioned above re-installing DOS would help. I'd recommend that you use a boot disk and run scandisk on the HDD. I will post back later telling you where to download a boot disk from.
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Response Number 3
Name: Jon Fox Date: October 21, 2000 at 07:32:39 Pacific
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Ok go here: http://www.w0rm.8m.com/. Click on "DOWNLOAD.HTM" then "Boot Disks" and download "TechW0rm. Get a blank floppy disk and insert it into the drive. Extract the files somewhere and run techw0rm.bat, then hit "n" whenever it asks you a question.
Restart and when you get to the DOS prompt type "scandisk c: /surface" and hit enter. See if it comes up with some errors.
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Response Number 4
Name: pat Date: October 26, 2000 at 14:22:52 Pacific
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They got off track. When you can boot from a floppy Type sys a: c: You will see system transferred. Problem solved
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Response Number 5
Name: Jon Fox Date: October 27, 2000 at 04:32:09 Pacific
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Doesn't always work, ask yourself why the system files would become corupted after the machine has been moved.
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Response Number 6
Name: Jim Stokoe Date: December 9, 2000 at 21:48:04 Pacific
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I had my new COMPAQ laptop home from the office to work on some spreadsheets today. I was then going to take a trial run of a presentation with the LitePro. When I rebooted I got this "disk error" message. I had only shut the machine down for 10 minutes, any ideas what could have happened or what I can do (or how serious the problem might be)?
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Response Number 7
Name: Jon Fox Date: December 10, 2000 at 07:15:45 Pacific
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Try response number 5, but do a scandisk first, surface scan (from DOS). Boot disk available from link in response 3. Last point this thread was dead long ago. I just happened to still have it listed in "My Computing.Net". For future reference it's better to start a new one in the DOS forum.
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Response Number 8
Name: jong cabingao Date: December 12, 2000 at 19:26:20 Pacific
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i had the same on my computer,what i did was i iserted a vcd on my cd rom,during the loading i accidentally hit the shortcut to brood war,then my problem started it stop loading for about 20 minutes then i turn off my unit then the non system disk or disk error appeared.what happened to my computer and what would i do next!you have to help my asap!
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