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    Blazed Posts: 7, Reputation: 1
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    Oct 5, 2005, 03:17 PM
    Disk Error
    So I pretty much gave up on the computer with the monitor problem. This other computer I got has this little problem with saying there is a nonsytem disk or disk error when I start it up. Ive tried multiple HDDS and one other floppy I even tried taking the floppy out. I just want to know what is making it think that there is a disk error... None of this is making any sense to me. Ive built computers before and these two are really getting on my nerves I've never had a problem like this before that I wasn't able to resolve simply. Ive tried everything I know to correct these problems and nothing I do or my friend seemes to work. So if you know why it would be displaying Disk error please assist me.

    (About to drive up to the mountains and throw these Computers off)
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    ScottGem Posts: 64,966, Reputation: 6056
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    Oct 6, 2005, 05:47 AM
    There are a few possibilities.

    1) You have your boot sequence set incorrectly so its looking for the boot sector in the wrong place

    2) there is a problem on the motherboard in the drive controllers that is not reading your disk drives properly

    3) You are not using a disk formatted as a system disk as the boot drive.
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