Summary: having got my floppy drive working--- a new cable---- am trying to boot up with dos 6.22 it comes up with non system disc or disc error----i dont kno...
Summary: I have an 80286 system i'm goofing off with. I was reading a floppy in the A drive(of course). The power went out and when I restarted it. It was...
Summary: i recently installed an hsb(apache) m/b, with a cyrix 686(266mhz) chip, i have 48mb of memory and two rather old hard drives(135mb, primary master:426...
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: 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: If you have tried a number of bootable floppies AND you are certain they (or at least one of them) are good, yet you still receive the non-system disk...
Summary: Hi, just trying to get a toshiba 3200 "portable" working... Hard drive was formatted, when dos disc (3.3 and 6.22) are inserted in drive, I get "non s...
Summary: I am working off a Toshiba Satellite T1910 486. I'm running DOS 6.22. When I turned on the computer today I received the non-system disk or disk erro...
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 486SX-25mhz which I am trying to install Windows 95. I have jumped the gun and have refomatted my hard drive using the command format c: with...
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: 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: 486 SX 25 mhz. We f/disked PC. Thought we had a bad I/O card. It wouldn't read the Dos boot disk to cont F/disking it. Installed a new I/O Card an sti...
Summary: a freind of my dad gave me a old laptop\ phoenixBIOS A286 vr.1.00 640K ultralite 286F reference Id 10 no cd driver ___ When i turn it on it tel's me ...
Summary: I got some old 486's (3 of for FREE), now Im trying to get them to go. The problem is that it will not boot a floppy, the a:drive works, the BOIS look...
Summary: I cannot seem to be able to reinstall XP Pro or any of the DOS based OS's without losing the boot loader that XP uses. I know XP has 4 critical files ...
Summary: I recently bought a computer online and when I got it, it was reformatted to the original setting because they could not sell me the rights to the ope...
Summary: I have an old 386 machine. When I switch it on the message 'non system disk or disk error' appears. I can boot it up using a system disk from anothe...
Summary: Thanks for the suggestion, Tim, but I already tried that and it did not work. The command.com was from DOS 5.0. The system still would not boot to t...
Summary: Nice of someone to delete my thread.....so here goes again. I originally backed up my 3 DOS disks...zipped them. Now I need them again for an old syst...
Summary: i just put a new 12 GB harddrive in my computer, and then formatted it from DOS. it worked fine after that, but now for some reason the second time i ...
Summary: Mick, Got PC-DOS 5.0 Bootdisk from Powerload.fsnet computer still not working. I boot with this disk and error message now says(NON-SYSTEM DISK OR DI...
Summary: Any 98 or ME bootdisk will be able to partition and format it. If the drive is larger than about 64 gig you need the ME version of fdisk or the updat...
Summary: I know of some of the claimed problems with either leaving a computer running all the time or turning it off - -When you leave it running, mechanical...
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