Summary: Hi w-f, Good point. I don't remember if fdisk will make two actives on two physival drives. You're probably right. "Tried a:\sys c: from the boot dis...
Summary: My pc was completely dead with bad power supply and I just replaced it. Now it won't boot. when I turn on the power ,the PS and cpu fan start. Also th...
Summary: My old portable MCW computer won't boot up anymore. It has a 386 Intel motherboard. I think that the on-board battery is dead. It has a Varta N3310...
Summary: HELP. My laptop got poured on an now won't boot up.. it keeps saying non-system disk or disk error.. I don't have any boot up disks. Is the hard driv...
Summary: Hi guys, decided to trash the laptop with screwed h/d I wrote about earlier. Found a 386 for free at a yard sale, it worked fine a few days ago, runn...
Summary: Hi I just formated and installed dos 6.2 on an old 486.Then installed win3.11 work group everything looks good but won't boot passed the windows log...
Summary: So type 40 won't work and setting C,H,S doesn't work either? Try setting, Cyl 723 - Head 13 - Precomp 65535 - LandZ 722 - Sector 51 if the Dell bios...
Summary: SH, Reinstalling Win 3.1 won't delete any of your existing directories. If your directory C:\windows still exists, from your C: prompt type CD windows...
Summary: "evolved" or not, your post is just a bit bewildering. If the hard drive won't boot on its own, use your DOS bootdisk - - you know, the one that came ...
Summary: I have an old computer that I stored a little data in, to keep clutter off the new. It has been quite awhile since I used it. Now, I tried to boot i...
Summary: That's right, get your CD-ROM working in DOS. If you have an IDE drive, don't fool with drivers. Get OAKCDROM.SYS and use that. It comes on Wi...
Summary: Here's the deal. I wanted to enhance the color settings to 256 colors but I picked XGA instead of VGA. After that Windows 3.1 wouldn't boot and I got ...
Summary: Hi Andy: If I understand you correct, you only have problems to start Windows 3.1. You can try hitting one of the F keys (F4, F2, don't remember) to b...
Summary: You're a 'System Admin'? Really? You'd better get hold of a technician then. XP has no problems reading older file systems such as FAT16 or FAT32, jus...
Summary: With your computer unplugged, unplug the ribbion from your hard drive and plug it back in making sure it is seated well. You can also do this with th...
Summary: Sys won't work if c: isn't being recognized. Just guessing, but since it seems like the drive was formatted, could be a FAT32 (Win95B) drive being boo...
Summary: I don't know how or why, but when I started up my computer (Compaq Presario CDS 520 w/ Dos 6.22 and Win 3.1, 486 processor, I don't know if that helps...
Summary: It won't boot from your B:>\ drive, but you can physically make your 31/2 inch floppy drive into drive A:>\ by moving the ribbon cable for the drive ...
Summary: Old notebook won't boot. Error reads: Diskette drive A failure. Non-system disk or disk error. Replace and press any key when ready. I can't get ...
Summary: won't start i get cmos checksom failure Run systoms utility hard drive c and d are type 47 i think it says to insert boot disk i don't have one Got ...
Summary: I deleted all files on c drive. (To upgrade to Win 95) (unsuccessful) Reinstalled Win 3.1 but now system won't recognize cd-rom. I only have drive ...
Summary: I have a 486DX at 66HZ and it runs my business software. I would like to add a second hard drive to the computer to act as a back up storage device. ...
Summary: Hi Dave: You might have a bad install, or it's bad software. I never like to use other mouse install drivers, they seam to give lots of problems when ...
Summary: Your bios stuff is saved by you after making changes to it. If changes are saved, your bios or CMOS battery (flat, watch like battery) is fine. Keep...
Summary: when i did this, i unplugged the power to the hard drive and the connector cable and replugged them back in, now it won't even come on. all i hear is ...
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