I formatted a computer with win 3x on it because i wanted to change the os to win98. Well when i turned it back on it said Non-system disk.. i put in the win3x os disk and it said the same thing.. well now whenever i start it up it says drive not ready insert bootup disk in drive a: press any key when ready.. i copied the command.com file in win98 but it says the same thing.. i noticed when it says the stuff about the drives on a: it said 1.2mb 5 1/2" and for b: it said 1.44mb 3 1/2" when i looked it up in bios the settings were the opposite like they should be.. that could be why the drive is not ready.. when i reversed them to the wrong settings it showed up correctly .. what's wrong? and how do i fix it?
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In advance settings of the bios you may have a "switch floppy drive" set to yes.
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it was set on floppy drive swapping and it was enabled.. so i disabled it.. and that fixed the drive not ready part.. now it's saying non-system disk i don't have a bootup disk and it has no operating system but i do have the disk for win3.x os .. a friend told me to copy the command.com file and use that as a boot up but it hasn't worked.. how can i just restore the old os?
okay i just boot a win95 bootup disk in the computer and it said the hard drive wasn't hooked up or something and then it gave me a:\ which was more then i had.. i tried copying the command.com file.. it worked but i can't reinstall any os because if i try and install win95 i need a cdrom and the cdrom isn't installed.. and i tried win3x but it's saying i have no c: and i can't change to the directory c:\ it says invalid drive path please help! =) sorry it's hard for me to concentrate on what i'm typing because people are talking in here
okay i just boot a win95 bootup disk in the computer and it said the hard drive wasn't hooked up or something and then it gave me a:\ which was more then i had.. i tried copying the command.com file.. it worked but i can't reinstall any os because if i try and install win95 i need a cdrom and the cdrom isn't installed.. and i tried win3x but it's saying i have no c: and i can't change to the directory c:\ it says invalid drive path please help! =) sorry it's hard for me to concentrate on what i'm typing because people are talking in here
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win3.x is not an operating system therefore disk one of win3.x will not boot. you need to get a win98 boot disk, it's downloadable from a few sites, not sure off the top of my head where though. do a search for 'boot disks'. once you have the disk boot right through then run fdisk , delete and re-partition the hard drive, reboot and then format the hard drive. once this is complete change to the cd drive ( type d: or e: )
then run setup ,assuming you've put the win98 disk in, also is the win98 cd the full version or an upgrade
Rob If in doubt get the Ball Pein Hammer out
then run setup ,assuming you've put the win98 disk in, also is the win98 cd the full version or an upgrade
Rob If in doubt get the Ball Pein Hammer out
You can get a boot disk for most OS if you go to
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