Summary: I have an old compudyne notebook 386sl 20mhz 32-bit processor.My laptop will not boot from the A drive. It recognizes the A drive but will not boot fr...
Summary: I bought this Compudyne 386 slx/25 brand new and had always worked great. Been sitting on the shelf for about a year and the wife decided she wanted t...
Summary: Industrial computer running DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11. Hard drive is dying and need to replace. FDISK and FORMAT/S the replacement as a D: drive (s...
Summary: I have an old 486 or early Pentium computer with a dead Hard drive and it seems that the boot floppy (a 5 1/4 drive) is dead also. It has a 3.5 inch ...
Summary: Umm.............. If you're booting from a floppy why format it? What you want to do is exit Windows, go to drive a: and type "sys a:\ c:" (without t...
Summary: adam1312, Still working on this problem? Hope you are still a beginner on computers and are not offended by the simple things in the following. First...
Summary: Anyone know where I can get some info (pin diagrams) on how to use a laptop cga monitor on a PC? I just got a hold of a comcrap slt286 and I have it a...
Summary: My pc was completely dead with bad power supply and I just replaced it. Now it won't boot. when I turn on the power ,the PS and cpu fan start. Also th...
Summary: Steven.... Windows isn't disappearing from your drive - either it installed or it didn't. It sounds very much that your 2nd Win31 disk is bad, and the...
Summary: I'm trying to fix a friends computer which has win 95c and the system files have been deleted (easy).. But when i try to boot from a startup floppy it...
Summary: I get a "bad command interpreter" when I boot up. I've tried to use a system start up disk that I had but still get the same message. Someone told m...
Summary: The FD will not appear in the Windows File Manager. I boot from A: drive. Does that have any effect? View post #159038 for more details. Hello. The o...
Summary: Hi Can anyone help in advising what to do when the PC doesn't recognise the A:\ drive. I'm using WIN3.11 for workgroups which all of a sudden gives me...
Summary: If it's not an option in the BIOS, then it should boot from a: whenever there is a working boot floppy in the drive. You don't provide much informatio...
Summary: I have been having a problem for a long time with the boot up. My computer will not boot without a floppy boot disk in the drive. It says "Non-Syste...
Summary: 1. I think I must connect the Quantum as slave at the MIDDLE of the ribbon cable and my primary Conner a the end to get it to work. 2. But I still don...
Summary: Are you saying that your machine will only boot from a floppy? If so, boot it up, change to the a: drive and type sys c: to restore your hard drive. ...
Summary: By the Subject title, I think you want to install Win95 on that 486 computer but you can't boot from A: drive 'cause it's a 5-1/4" drive right? ...
Summary: Pc will not boot up if printer is contected. When the pc is running if I plug in the printer it will print (Lexmark Color Jetprinter Z12)can anybody h...
Summary: I am reinstalling Windows 98. I created a boot disk and ran the fdisk in dos. I deleted the partition and created a new partition. I restarted my comp...
Summary: When I boot up it has a memory count and ends up 8192 and says to enter computer setup. Then it says 1996 - 98 compaq computer corp. 75mhz pentium p...
Summary: If the boot disk is any good, it should work no matter what's on (or not on) your hard disk. If you can access the setup screen, usually by holding de...
Summary: I have an old 386 that uses DOS 5. Recently I had problem booting and so uses a floppy disk to boot from A drive. But the last time when I tried, it...
Summary: have dos 3.3 & win 3.00 installed on tandy 1000tx. will not boot, says "invalid system disk" will not let me re-install dos either. any suggestions???...
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