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 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: 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 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: 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: When you "SYS" a drive--floppy or hard drive--you put the system files on it including Command.com which is not hidden. "Non system disk or disk ...
Summary: I hav ms dos 3.1, i want to reboot it, i hav a start up disk, i would like to kno what i type in at (non system disk or disk error A:>) what command s...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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 am mucking around with an old 286 and whenever I boot the machine it says C:\ error press F1 to continue. I do this and then is says Drive not ready...
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: When I turned on my IBM/PS2 computer today I got a non system disk or disk error. I then put in a boot disk and it said the same thing. The hard drive...
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 replaced my old hard drive with a new 6.4g. I installed a BIOS flash upgrade, partitioned the new hard drive, formatted it, booted with DOS 6.22 Dis...
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 have an old 486 DX2 50 and i want to install winnt server on it! i previously had win3.11 on it! i formatted c: and now when i turn it on it says no...
Summary: I recently formatted my hard drive on my old toshiba 486 laptop. I tried to boot from a floppy, but still get a message reading, "non system disk or d...
Summary: Igor, Yes, when I try to reboot without the disk it says "Non-system disk or disk error. Push any key to continue." Then when I push a key it tries to...
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