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First post, by john_popani

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Hello,

I turned my win98 pc the other day and i got a black screen with "Operating System not found". No matter what i try to do i always get to this point. Forcing the boot to start with the floppy/cd doesn't seem to work. I tried 3 other blank hard disks but i still get this error. Anyone have an idea how i can bypass this ? What can be causing this ?

Pentium I 133mhz
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DOS 6.22

Reply 1 of 11, by Warlord

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Fdisk /mbr

Reply 2 of 11, by leileilol

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Check those boot disks for viruses too.

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Reply 3 of 11, by john_popani

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Warlord wrote on 2022-02-12, 00:30:

Fdisk /mbr

i can't reach Fdisk, it never reaches the option for a command prompt. It simply goes to that screen and i have to reset the pc. Even if i change the boot settings it still goes there.

Pentium I 133mhz
32MB RAM
AWE64
S3 64v+ / Voodoo 1
DOS 6.22

Reply 4 of 11, by john_popani

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leileilol wrote on 2022-02-12, 06:04:

Check those boot disks for viruses too.

It's an original boot disk, only used to install windows on this machine, I'm afraid that's not the issue.

Pentium I 133mhz
32MB RAM
AWE64
S3 64v+ / Voodoo 1
DOS 6.22

Reply 5 of 11, by Plasma

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CMOS battery died? Enter the BIOS setup and make sure your drives are configured correctly.

Reply 6 of 11, by Joakim

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If you don't have a boot disk you might be able to activate booting from CDROM in bios and load DOS that way. I suppose fdisk is available at that point.

Reply 7 of 11, by Warlord

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So. You're saying if you unplug all of the ribbon cables and just connect a floppy drive u can't boot a boot disk

Reply 8 of 11, by john_popani

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Plasma wrote on 2022-02-12, 07:22:

CMOS battery died? Enter the BIOS setup and make sure your drives are configured correctly.

I changed the CMOS, everything is configured and visible in the BIOS, but still no luck

Pentium I 133mhz
32MB RAM
AWE64
S3 64v+ / Voodoo 1
DOS 6.22

Reply 9 of 11, by john_popani

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Warlord wrote on 2022-02-12, 15:41:

So. You're saying if you unplug all of the ribbon cables and just connect a floppy drive u can't boot a boot disk

Yes, disconnected everything else, i select the floppy from the boot menu and it still takes me to the Operating System not found screen. 🙁

Pentium I 133mhz
32MB RAM
AWE64
S3 64v+ / Voodoo 1
DOS 6.22

Reply 10 of 11, by john_popani

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Joakim wrote on 2022-02-12, 07:23:

If you don't have a boot disk you might be able to activate booting from CDROM in bios and load DOS that way. I suppose fdisk is available at that point.

I have a boot disk but no luck

Pentium I 133mhz
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S3 64v+ / Voodoo 1
DOS 6.22

Reply 11 of 11, by Jo22

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Can you try another floppy drive?
Maybe the drive is bad or dirty.

Or it's the floply disk controller?
Is it enabled in BIOS?

If you can, please make some screenshots of the BIOS.
Maybe there's something that what missed.

Good luck! 😁

PS: I had such issues in the past, too.
Sometimes it was a bad floppy/incompatible controller or a buggy cable.
Or an outdated PC BIOS that had old routines for FDC and HDDs that caused trouble.
Sometimes, a BIOS update or BIOS replacement helped me.

And when I worked with 5,25" 1,2MB floppy drives, I always had an ISA floppy card at hand.
Helped me several times to get 'em running in Pentium PCs. 😀

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