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Boot Help Please

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by shinny1, Dec 15, 2001.

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  1. shinny1

    shinny1 Thread Starter

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    My hard drive is clean. Im trying to reinstall windows. When I put the win98 boot disk in and try to boot the pc I keep getting "non system disk please reinsert disk and hit a key". I have made more win98 boot disk and still get the same thing. I chanced the floppy hardware thinking it was that but no luck still same thing. any help please!
     
    shinny1, Dec 15, 2001
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  2. Alex Ethridge

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    If you have changed your floppy drive, the next things are possibly an incorrectly-connected interface (ribbon) cable or an incorrectly-connected power supply cable. If these are not it, then all that's left is a possibly bad floppy controller (main board).
     
    Alex Ethridge, Dec 15, 2001
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  3. kilowatt1

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    :D Is the floppy drive first in the boot sequence in your BIOS setup? Just a thought. KW1
     
    kilowatt1, Dec 15, 2001
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  4. CLMSS

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    Hey..if you are installing Win98 why are you using a disk ? Y arent you using the Windows98 installation CD ?


    Just a thought.
     
    CLMSS, Dec 15, 2001
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    Sounds like you might be just downloading the boot disk file and saving it to a floppy insteading of expanding it.......

    Take a look at the listing of files you have on the floppy disk from a working computer........
     
    ~Candy~, Dec 16, 2001
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