Summary: i am having probs with a compaq prolinear. it used to have ibm dos and windows v 3.0 but i had to format to install 3.11 but now i cant get it to acce...
Summary: Well, I knew this was going to happen sooner or later, I got a virus on the computer, and now to fix it...Im suppose to use my Boot disk, but here's w...
Summary: I was trying to install Win95 on a 486 (running win3.1) yesterday. I should have just formatted the hard drive and installed from DOS. But instead I ...
Summary: Yes the boot LED comes on, and starts reading for 2 sec. or so, and then just turns off and then that OS message comes after trying to boot from the H...
Summary: How do I get my computer to boot from the A: drive so that I can use a boot disk to install Windows? Could you please tell me the exact DOS commands?...
Summary: The FAT32 thing could still be an issue if the computer wont boot to the C: drive, Try booting from your floppy and at the A: prompt type Sys C: If th...
Summary: Hi, my computer got a parisit and then when i went to reboot it back up, it wont boot up, it dosent do anytihng, but the power light comes on but that...
Summary: Well, then, what did you mean when you posted: "Anyway i dont understand the only drive it reads is drive a: " This sounds a lot like the same problem...
Summary: i formated my conner hdd with diskmanager software installd my win95 bootdisk.then restarted the computor.i then loaded my cdrom driver and restarted ...
Summary: oOOOOOk, heres my situation.first off, i cant get into Cmos, There is no way in hell i can find out how, because it doesnt give the command to enter i...
Summary: my computer wont install win98 it said cannot create temporary directory if you have hpfs or ntfs install on hard drive you will need to create ms-dos...
Summary: Hi, I just refformated my old 200. I reinstalled DOS 6.0 without any problems. I then needed to install a CDROM drive to reinstall Windows 95 from t...
Summary: Ok I was recently given an old 486 computer. It has a 66 MHz processor and 16 MB of RAM. It also came with a 202 MB Harddrive. I wanted to make it ...
Summary: I am getting the same boot errors on 2 different Computers. The first is a Tandy 1000 TX 640k memory 8mhz , The second is a IBM PC 300GL 32mb memory 1...
Summary: Ha, thats gona be hard to fix by your self (you can't boot from cd's or disks unless NTLDR is on the hard drive), NTLDR is a critcal file required by ...
Summary: I bought a 486 computer on ebay (i dont know why)i tried to install a memorex cd-rom on it and when i tried to turn it on the computer checked its 8m ...
Summary: Hi, I have an old intel 286 and i think the CMOS battery is toast and it forgot a whole bunch of settings. I had to reinstall the 3 1/2 in diskette dr...
Summary: Another case of the "format fix" *g* Ok, you can't switch the floppy boot order just by changing the CMOS - if the machine was originally set to boot ...
Summary: I have an AST Premium 486 pc that was working great at first. It had a small hard disk so I thought I would try to add another small one for more spac...
Summary: did you manage to find the solution.i have a similar problem.instead the computer displays missing operating system even after installing dos .well ...
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: ok if the hdd is foramted in fat32 will the setup program start at all ? i have werid problem i have the DOS on floppies and when it asks me to reboot...
Summary: My dos 6.0 wont boot with a system disk if you have answer or boot disk i would love it because of a pause command i put in the config.sys file. Help!...
Summary: I can't figure out why when I put dos 6.21 on my boot disk, it wont boot. Have I got corrupted boot-up files (i doubt it), or dos Dos6 not work with ...
Summary: If I want a computer to boot from the extended partition or I want windows to be installed in extended partition and I want it to work like that? Then...
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