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by khill114

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On system startup I receive a System Disk error message--replace disk and hit any key. My computer will not allow me to "msconfig". This problem started today, after downloading a McAfee VirusScan Update and rebooting my computer. How can I continue with the Windows ME load-in to start my computer?

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by dmiles

Check to make sure that you have left floppy in A:drive,if so eject and boot computer

If this does not correct the problem,insert a startup disk in floppy drive and boot computer,select option to boot without cd rom support and when finished,eject the disk and reboot

by rawright

Restart the PC while holding the Shift key down. This should put you into Safe Mode. Use the option to roll back the configuration to a previous working state and try the update again. I used this to fix a dead Compaq Sunday and it worked like a charm.

by digital_dna

Sounds to me like you have a missing IO.SYS file or you have a Floppy Disk in the A drive.

I'm going to assume you have checked the obvious and go with a corrupt or missing IO.SYS file. If you have a WinME boot disk boot from it. At the DOS prompt type .. This will copy the System file's including IO.SYS) from the boot floppy to the Hard Drive.

This should fix the problem. IF it doesn't let us know.

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by tevita

Have you check in bios whether it detects the right hard disk? Check whether it is Auto detects or it manually detects to make sure you got the right hard disk in there. I had the same problem by installing Mcafee Pro Ver 6.0 on a Windows ME PC. What I did, I copy the data to another Hard disk of another PC then did a clean installed of the O/S then copy the data back to it and never installed McAfee into that PC. The PC works fine.

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