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diskette A

Started by billyboxer , Oct 20 2007 12:20 PM

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billyboxer

Posted 20 October 2007 - 12:20 PM

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i have this old computer and now i start it and it says .......
"Invalid Diskette Boot"
"Insert Diskette A"....

any help?

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Neil Jones

Posted 20 October 2007 - 04:21 PM

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Trying to boot off the floppy disk drive.
Remove any floppy disks from the drive and power off and power on the computer again.
This can also be a sign of a dead hard drive, since most computers are set up only to boot off a floppy when it can't load from any other device.