no command.com or windows

Hi

First go into your BIOS. The instructions for doing this should be on the first screen you see when you turn on the computer - often you just need to press the DEL key.

Make sure that the floppy drive is enabled, make sure that the drive has not been 'swapped' - this can often cause the A: drive to disappear. Make sure that the floppy drive is first in the list of bootable devices. When you have checked these, see if you are able to run any diagnostic tests from within the BIOS to check the installed hardware.

Next put a bootable floppy in Drive A:, and exit the BIOS. The computer should boot from the floppy. If it does not, turn the machine off, remove the cover and make sure that the power leads and connection cable is connected to the drive and that the data cable is properly seated on the motherboard. In other words make sure your floppy drive is working.

If everything goes OK, you should be asked if you want to start the computer with or without CD-ROM support, select No, then after a minute you should see A:\> in a DOS screen. When this appears type the following:

SYS C:

This will transfer command.com and the files required to boot the computer from the C: drive. Check that win.com exists by typing:

DIR win.com /S

This will search your drive for the Windows executable and should list it in C:\WINDOWS. If it is not here but somewhere else, you could try moving there by typing:

COPY C:\path to win.com as seen in the search results C:\WINDOWS

thus: copy c:\folder1\win.com c:\windows

Also, you may want to check the Windows registry by booting to DOS then typing:

scanreg /fix

If you cannot find win.com you may want to consider reinstalling Windows - you will not lose any data or programs.

Good luck