Summary: I have re-partitoned and formated my seagate ST38410A 8gb hdd. I booted up with a win95 start up disk and copied all file from a: to c: plus my cd dri...
Summary: Replacing a Seagate(1.5 GB) hard drive with a 10 GB Seagate hard drive. Initally a "1791-Disk 1 error" message was received. After removing the old dr...
Summary: I formatted my computer, and then went off to install DOS 6.22. It said I need to reboot so I did. Then all I get is "Non-System disk or disk error", ...
Summary: 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 ...
Summary: I have a CD which contains all DR DOS files, including the hidden IBMBIO.COM and IBMDOS.COM files. However, I do not have the system disk available. I...
Summary: I have browsed through some of the similar problem posts on here, but my problem still exists. I was given an old IBM ThinkPad 720C recently. It had a...
Summary: I'm trying to get an old 486 machine to work. The battery recently went dead, so I replaced it. Everytime I tried to start the computer, I got "non ...
Summary: I have a Toshiba t3100/20 laptop with a 720k 3.5" floppy drive and 20mb hdd. When I start it, it gives me a bunch of cmos errors then asks for a "Syst...
Summary: Hi! All... I'm an Interested yet a Newby to all this Dos stuff. Can anyone please advise me as to the correct procedure required to install DOS 6.22.....
Summary: I have been working with computers most of my life and there is always something that will go wrong to bring you back down to earth. I have an older M...
Summary: I have officially taken my first real job in the computing buisness, to try and fix this peice of junk present-day-server sized Presario 9500 Series. ...
Summary: 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 ...
Summary: I have a old compaq lte 5100 that I recently formatted. It had windows 98 on it a work fine but I wanted to put 3.1 back on it because it was faster....
Summary: I have managed to format my hard drive through cmos but when I put disk #1 of dos 6.22 in and start the computer the message " invalid system disk" ap...
Summary: I upgraded my Compaq Deskpro 4/33i from a 33 mhz to a 66 mhz. Then I switched the processor switches to a DX2 setting. When I start up the computer ...
Summary: I'd left a floppy disk in my computer and when I turned it on it read the disk and said "invalid system disk, or disk error. Replace and press any key...
Summary: I am using PCDOS 2000 on sencondary drive, I cannot boot it through lilo the linux loader which I have on my first hard-drive, I am currently going in...
Summary: Hi My friend recently picked up a really old, slow laptop. It had WIn95 on it and he decided he wanted win98. So he formatted the hard drive and n...
Summary: i formated my computer and i don't have the start up disk for it or the restore disk. all it says is "invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then p...
Summary: Thanks all for the many suggestions but every method fails. Did not try Diskgo as it is an overlay program, the online manual is no longer available ...
Summary: Hello i just bought an old compaq desktop presario with a 1.0GB P90 with 16mb with no operating system and no cd. i am trying to install a cd and wind...
Summary: I formatted the C drive in an old 386, thinking I could install Windows 95. I reinstalled Win 3.1, but when I turn on the computer I get this messag...
Summary: After sorting through some old files from an old 486 computer that was given for college, I reset the computer and received this message: Invalid sys...
Summary: I unfortunately formated my HD,I have managed to get dos 6.2 back onto the HD, the problem is if I reboot or shut off the pc,I get-invalid system disk...