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5th Feb 2009, 13:30
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| I have a dell dimension 4100 and it has windows 98se installed. when i turnon the pc i get a message saying invalid boot disk. insert boot disk in drive A: i do not have the boot disk for this i just got it from someone that was throwing it away. How do i get around this or is there a problem with a hardware or something. the machine has these installed. 1.Compact Disk,680M,I,F5,48X Samsung 2.Floppy Disk Drive,1.44M, 3.5 In Form Factor,3MD,No Bezel,NEC 3.Hard Drive,20G,IDE,7.2K,F3, 1 Inch,No Controllers/No CableWD-XL20 4.Card,Video,16M,ATI,RAGE128, Dimension 5.Processor,80526,933,256,133, Fiber Channel,C0 |
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5th Feb 2009, 13:46
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| Sounds like your hard drive may have failed.
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Do you know how to access your BIOS and see if it shows up in there? My System: Hybr!d
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5th Feb 2009, 14:20
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| i cant get pass that screen push a button same message comes up. but normally i do i havent used 98 at all just xp and vista. |
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#4
5th Feb 2009, 15:01
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| The BIOS is the setup before anything else. http://www.computer-juice.com/forums...ess-bios-3997/ In there will be a tab for drives, your CD/DVD and HDDs will be listed is they are working. |
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5th Feb 2009, 20:37
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| is there a floppy disk in the floppy drive? if there is, windows wont boot unless its a startup recovery disk. thts the first think i would check. if the hard drive failed, i think it would say media test failure. but i could be wrong. in any case, make sure there is no floppy disk inside. |
