yes but this could cause a mess when the boot disk is for a different version of windows, no? Yes it did. Now it says that the operating system is missing in English instead. Oh well. Probably the best alternative is to just install a fresh install of Windows 95. It was a fun experiment after all! …

also try issuing the " fdisk /mbr " command, since in the photo it mentions unknown IPL for the MBR bootrecord. yes but this could cause a mess when the boot disk is for a different version of windows, no? Yes it did. Now it says that the operating system is missing in English instead. Oh well. …

Thanks guys! Searching for more help on the problem you are helping me with, I came across another program that can be seen in this photo. So at the top you can see the numbers that I've typed into the bios (the very same numbers that are on the HDD itself, that presents me with an error that there …

So I managed to save my old win98 boot disk by formatting it and making a new boot disk out of it. I've managed to boot my 486 in to that, and just looking at c: I can see that there is a version of Windows on it. I went to the windows folder and typed win, and then I get this error about VFAT …

Brilliant answers from you guys! So I've got an original unopened version of Windows 98 (cool right? :D ) that of course contains that boot floppy disk. However as I tried to use it it doesn't want to work. I've tried on a few different computers with different FDD's now and once I managed to boot …

OK so I've typed in the right numbers for my HDD and floppy, and the floppy seems to be working. What has changed about the HDD is that it no more says there is no bootable disk, but it says that there is no operating system now. And it says it in swedish which I find a bit odd if there is nothing …

Do I manually have to add HDD and floppy in the bios? Yep, that was pretty norm back then. You are supposed to know the type of the disk (if it's one of those predefined types 1-46) or set the type 47 and enter manually the geometry of the HDD you have installed. Some bioses provided HDD autodetect …

So this is before my era, but I've come across a 486 that I'm trying to breath life into. At first it did not find anything to boot from, and it said that cmos battery test failed. After I changed that battery, it still failed, until I reset it in the bios, and now it passes the cmos test. However, …

So I'm getting into the retro scene by building a few 2000-ish computers for a small LAN for me and a couple of friends. I got most parts at home except hard drives with IDE connection. I keep reading that I can't use a bigger HDD than 137gb, but smaller than that is harder to find. Will it install …