Summary: ThinkPad 755CE won't boot from harddisk nor from any bootdisk I try (Win98, DOS 6.22, DOS 5.0, ...). The operating system on the harddisk was MSDOS 5....
Summary: I have a 486 which previously had Linux on it. I want to install DOS, and then Windows 3.1. After installing DOS 6.2, it won't boot up from the hard...
Summary: I have had similar problems with ancient Radio Shack computers with modified DOS versions. They won't boot from anything except that modified version....
Summary: Hello all, I have a brand new system, with a Transcend motherboard and AMD 1Ghz processor, plenty of RAM(128), and a Maxtor 40GB drive. I have been a...
Summary: I have a compuadd 286 which I got recently that was running DOS5 just fine. It had a boot sector virus on it which I attempted to get rid of a few tim...
Summary: windows 95 won,t boot up error messages this version of windows not run on MS-dos 7.00 or earlier the following filles is missing or corrupted. ALSO T...
Summary: Few days ago,I bought a Dell 486 machine,model 433NP and it had Win98SE installed. I decided to format the drive and install DOS7.1/Win311 on it.I hoo...
Summary: I had Windows XP installed, I left for the weekend came back and booted up my computer. I had troubles all night as my computer kept restarting. This ...
Summary: I tried resetting the cpu & multiplier speeds to faster than the pc's specs & now it won't even boot, even from the startup disc or Win98 CD - pls hel...
Summary: I really don't know what I've done but will try and put it in sequence in hope someone has an idea which may help. My brothers 386 was having major pr...
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 got a non working computer from a friend. I installed a new hard drive and dos. It won't boot to hard drive it needs boot disk. I've tried some thin...
Summary: Well, it's gonna be kinda hard to install anything if the thing won't boot. Now, what make, model, year and what size TIRES is on your laptop? Is thi...
Summary: himem sys won't work in a 286 computer.. so edit config.sys files and remove,if its there, Himem.sys , emm386, and any reference to load high. I thin...
Summary: This is more of a hardware issue than OS specific, but I just got Win 2k and can't boot from the CD on my computer with a Pioneer 6x DVD drive (IDE sl...
Summary: I think I've narrowed it down to a problem with the Highmem tool. A bios update fixes this, but it won't let me install without a fully charged batter...
Summary: Hello folks. I picked up a couple 486's at a thrift store today, finally got a couple problems fixed and now I'm presented with a new one. I've tried ...
Summary: Had dual booting with Nt and win 95, currently there no OS on the h/drive. Able to boot with win95 startup disk but won't boot with dos. tried to tra...
Summary: I'm helping my sister put together a pc amd anthon 950 with a wd400eb hard drive.I'm trying to boot it up with 98 had xp on drive. I ran fdisk said re...
Summary: I have a Creative cd-rom that is plugged into the sound card, instead of being plugged into the secondary IDE port on the board. I just installed new...
Summary: Idiot didn't partition the drive or transfer the system files from the floppy. Apart from no drives, there's no master boot record!! Fuckme that's stu...
Summary: I don't know what to say to the first response you got, except he not even close on "did ya format it". You said you formated only the drive letter co...
Summary: My computer won't start windows 98. It goes to a screen with 6 choices, one being "start using safe mode". I have tried everything but nothing works. ...
Summary: Here's some info I saved long ago. Be warned, it's long; File Systems Unraveled Most of you have probably heard the term FAT, FAT32, FAT16, NTFS and ...
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