Summary: I am building a new(old) system. I keep getting the message that I have a boot disk failure. I have tried 3 different disks from 3 different sources a...
Summary: I just built a pc from spares Iv collected but when I boot up it says boot disk failure insert system disk. but I don’t have any disks for motherboa...
Summary: I turned on my computer the other day and I got a boot disk failure message...The bios is not detecting my primary hard drive with the OS on it so win...
Summary: If I get the boot disk failure message and my bios does not even detect the hard drive is the hard drive toast?? The hard drive reads fine when i put ...
Summary: If the CMOS battery has failed, usually you will get an error after the memory test that says. "Checksum error" or something like that. You said the ...
Summary: When I first boot up my machine takes too long to detect IDE drives. Then when if finally does detect them my system wants to boot from cd when I've c...
Summary: Little backstory. I just built a new pc, which works great. I copied all my data to my new hard drive from my old one. So, now I'm trying to put the o...
Summary: I have a pentium 866 PC running Windows XP. Multiple times throughout the day XP will freeze causing us to reboot the machine. Upon reboot it usuall...
Summary: hi, here is the problem i am facing...whenever i boot the computer it indicated that my floppy disk failure (40). can anyone help me to solve this pro...
Summary: I'm having a problem where I'm unable to get past bios after a failure of my second hard drive (the one without the OS installed). The machine is a 2...
Summary: When I start my computer and have the bios set to boot from harddrive 1, I get an error "boot device Failure",and my computer freezes. When I set the ...
Summary: hi i am trying to upgrade my brothers pc.. however when i boot i have gone through all kinds of errors after fixing them i am not getting a Primary Sl...
Summary: Whilst attempting to do its scheduled defrag (which always failed on ME because something was accessing the HD), Defrag stopped with it's usual error ...
Summary: Hi, My laptop had become sluggish and disk used to make lot of noise recently. And, one day on bootup, I get: "SMART Disk Failure Imminent on Hard Dis...
Summary: I have been working on this issue for some time and am now at the end of my rope. My computer goes through a systematic booting problem when booting f...
Summary: I am installing a new motherboard and have a formatted HD. When I insert the 98 boot disk and tell it to "start with CDRom support" it tells me that n...
Summary: Some time ago I downloaded a Win95 Boot Disk which includes an Oak Technology driver that recognizes the CD-ROM. It's been really useful on older PC's...
Summary: hi, i formatted my comp thru fdisk on the win 98 boot disk.i was actually tryin to format c cuz my windows was installed on d..i somehow messed it up ...
Summary: Ok, here's what happened, I was going to install XOSL (a bootloader, www.xosl.org) on my machine, but wanted it in its own partition, so I created one...
Summary: I recently got a computer from a friend for free who couldn't get it to work. I found out the reason it wasn't booting was because A) There was no har...
Summary: Hello everybody! I'm formatting my HD, is a 2.16 GB Samsung, but after 10% stops and says "Over stack problem, change your Config.sys Settings" I'm us...
Summary: I am trying to setup Windows ME on my computer. I have an SCSI disk. Windows ME boot disk wont detect it. Do I need a scsi boot disk? Where do I find ...
Summary: my computer radomly restarts and when i shut down to restart it sometimes gives me a invalid boot disk error. i re-installed xp on a different hd whi...
Summary: i would like to know? what is the easy way to make a cd rom boot disk i have a win 98 disk it is "autoplay" CD-Rom, and it work fine but, getting old ...
Summary: I've added a new hard drive. C = OS and Pagefile 'SYSTEM' D = Storage and Pagefile 'PAGEFILE' but for some reason XP Disk Management no longer shows a...
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