1. If you don't have a bootable floppy disk, you can create one if
you have another system that's working.
2. If the HDD on the system that's not booting has Windows
95 on it, make sure you use a system that's also running Windows 95 to
create the boot disk.
3. To create the boot disk from a working system, go to START / Programs /
MS-DOS Prompt. This will open a DOS window.
4.Insert a blank disk into the A: drive. For the following DOS commands in bold text, type out the exact commands
and then hit ENTER.
5. FORMAT A: /U/S - this will format the disk and make it bootable.
6. COPY C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\SYS.COM A: - this copies
the SYS.COM utility (which is needed to make an IDE HDD bootable again) to the
A: drive.
MAKE HDD BOOTABLE
1. Boot from a bootable disk, or from the disk you've just created by
following the above instructions.
2. At the "A:\>" prompt, type SYS C:. This will make the HDD
bootable again. When it's done, remove the floppy disk and hit the system reset
button.
3. If you get an error message that says, "Bad command or file name," then you
are missing the SYS.COM file on your boot disk. You can copy SYS.COM to the
disk by following step number 6 from above.
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