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NON-System disk or disk error!!
Name: Help! Date: November 7, 2000 at 10:00:41 Pacific
Comment:
Everytime I boot up my computer it says Non system disk or disk error...but the thing is, there is no disk in the a: drive..i even went into the bios and disable a: drive...and it still gives me that error...any suggestions?
Name: MF Date: November 7, 2000 at 11:10:20 Pacific
Reply:
Your computer cannot find a operating system to boot from so it is saying that message. Is this computer new or did it work before. Look in your BIOS and make sure your computer detect your hard drive. If your computer work before, you need to insert a bootable diskette in your computer. Make sure your BIOS states to boot off the A: drive. Once it boots off the floppy change to the C: drive and make sure all your data and everything else is there. If it is then you need to issue a SYS C: but only from a bootable disk that has the same version and operating system as your hard drive, you have to make sure the SYS command is on your floppy.
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Response Number 2
Name: Help! Date: November 7, 2000 at 11:18:48 Pacific
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Thanx MF...it worked!
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Response Number 3
Name: Miklos Date: November 28, 2000 at 02:10:51 Pacific
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I have a same problems! but i can't enter in BIOS??? My computer is COMPAQ LTE laptop with HDD 286 How I can setup the BIOS??? Thank you!
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Response Number 4
Name: nancy borden Date: February 19, 2001 at 19:05:08 Pacific
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we bought this computer from someone else and my neice deleted alot of things and we can't get it to anything.you can't type anything and we don't have a bootup disk for it .can you help me THANK YOU NANCY
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