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non system disk
Name: capekeeper Date: January 14, 2001 at 08:53:20 Pacific
Comment:
the problem is with the hard drive i recentley formatted all went wll but when i restarted the computer the thing said non system disk then i tried to boot from a: but when i put the win 95 boot disk in the a: drive light just stayed on and when i tried the win 3.1 i got a bunch of garbage i never got to a prompt i formatted because the hard drive was so messed up it had win 95 it had no himem.sys or config so i will just start fresh
Name: Freelinks2001 Date: January 14, 2001 at 13:16:46 Pacific
Reply:
Let me ask. How did u format ? Format c:/ or Format c:/s
Try reformating useing format c:/s s for system disk.
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Response Number 2
Name: fred6008 Date: January 16, 2001 at 10:14:19 Pacific
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In addition to formatting you need to go into your BIOS and check that drive A: is still selected as 1.44Mb. Garbage often occurs when a power failure or something has disturbed that setting in the BIOS. When you get your floppies working, you can attend to C: drive.
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