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Want to reformat hardrive and can't boot to msdos

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by janna, 2004/03/06.

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  1. 2004/03/06
    janna

    janna Inactive Thread Starter

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    I'm trying to reformat and the pc will not boot into dos nor can I get it to boot up off floppy what can I do?
     
  2. 2004/03/06
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    First of all check in the BIOS that boot from floppy comes before boot from hard drive under boot sequence.
     

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    broni

    broni Moderator Malware Analyst

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    Also, try another boot disk.
     
  5. 2004/03/08
    janna

    janna Inactive Thread Starter

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    Finally I got it into dos

    thank you!
     
  6. 2004/03/08
    broni

    broni Moderator Malware Analyst

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    Good, but we'd like to know what was the culprit, if you wish, please.
     
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