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Problem With Dos
Name: Maverick_Zero Date: December 26, 2004 at 13:51:51 Pacific OS: Windows ME CPU/Ram: AMD Sempron 2600+
Comment:
My computer one day suddenly went crazy and i tried to load a boot disk, then it kept on saying Cannot Load Dos when it tries to load the floppy. If you need more info reply back.
Name: jboy Date: December 26, 2004 at 14:11:54 Pacific
Reply:
ME uses a rather unique DOS version - are you using an ME startup disk? Maybe try another, or even a 98, depending on what the actual problem is.
Best bet would be to post in the WinME forum, and provide a detailed explanation of events.
Why don't they make computers that will do what we think we want them to do?
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Response Number 2
Name: jboy Date: December 27, 2004 at 08:32:32 Pacific
Reply:
Reposted in WinME
Why don't they make computers that will do what we think we want them to do?
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Response Number 3
Name: ZeroX_4Real Date: December 28, 2004 at 14:06:13 Pacific
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On another machine, goto run, type "command.com" press enter, insert a floppy into drive a:, type "sys a:", it will say "System Transfered" there you go. :)
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Response Number 4
Name: jboy Date: December 28, 2004 at 14:24:22 Pacific
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Not exactly the best advice (not much good on an XP machine, for example)- but you should probably submit any suggestions to the message in the WinME forum and not this one.
As details are slowly revealed, sounds like there's a hardware issue as well.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing..if you can fake that, you've got it made.
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Response Number 5
Name: lol Date: January 1, 2005 at 04:12:16 Pacific
Reply:
If you need also to format the harddisk you can type format c: /q /s
Now the harddisk will be quick-formatted and the system files automatically transfered.
You will find excellent bootdisks on www.bootdisk.com
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