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by chuksanah

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I am having a problem with what we call legacy pcs. i.e the cic tower pcs. we have a couple down here at the hospital and about 6 of them have come out with "disk boot failure. Insert system disk and press enter". I tried re-installing the OS but this has failed. I have been seraching for a website where I can download an anti virus boot disk to use and I have so far come up against a blank wall. can anyone point me in the right direction.

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by dpalsen

I ran across something like this awhile back with a certain brand of drive. Whenever I formatted it, the system wouldn't set the drive as active. Use fdisk, and make sure the primary partition is set as active. This may help.

-Dave

by tjc

Try booting with a floppy disk made from another comtpuer with the same OS on it. When it is booted then do a SYS C: make sure the startup disk you formated on that other computer is formated with a format /s and that you copied the SYS from the dos/windows/command directory to it.

hope that helps.

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