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non system disc error

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  1. cgarfourme

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    have ibm 380ed. have reformatted drive c: I am able to boot from boot disk, but when prompted to reboot to win98 OEM receive non system disc error.
    HELP!
    THANKS!
     
    cgarfourme, Jan 20, 2003
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    Hi and welcome....

    Did you get Windows installed onto the hard drive? And if so, are you removing the floppy disk from the floppy drive before rebooting?
     
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    Email from poster (it'll be easier if you reply back to the thread as I may be away)

    Nope, did not get windows installed and yes I did remove the floppy.

    Thanks!

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    Then that is the reason you are getting that error message. There is nothing on the hard drive to boot to........are you able to use the floppy drive and cdrom at the same time? Have you tried running setup.exe to install windows?
     
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    after I boot up via the startup disc I go to the CD ROM and go to setup.exe. It then goes to win98 setup, I hit enter and am prompted to remove floppy and restart. It is at that time on the restart I receive the error.

    Hope this helps!
     
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    Once it goes into windows 98 setup, does it appear to do a normal install? Usually you aren't asked to remove disks until it finishes......Is this a full Windows 98 install cd?
     
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    I can't even get it to that point. (installing that is) yes this is a full install CD. (Compaq OEM)
     
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    I thought you said you had an IBM machine? You aren't going to be able to use a Compaq OEM Install CD on an IBM machine.........that's why it's OEM.....
     
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    sorry, forgot about that reply thing.
    so, I got hosed by the guy that sold it to me?
    he said it would work in my machine!
     
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    That's ok, I reponded to your email too.....

    I would think so.........the Compaq cd searches for the serial number of the computer it came with.......at least all of the ones I've seen do.......

    I guess I'm wondering why you formatted the laptop to begin with.......what operating system used to be on it?
     
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