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Hard Drive Failure?! Save my old computer. :)
I have an older computer and it was working just yesterday, and I was just about to use it to do calculations 20 hours a day, but that doesn't look like it will happen.
It's a Pentium I - 133Mhz computer, and it runs Windows 95. The current display is...
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
I have no clue what they are talking about when they say "SYSTEM DISK". What specifically is it? Since I probably don't have it, can I download it?
Other info...
I just installed a DVD/CD-Writer in it, on Friday, to replace the non-working CD Drive. I did not burn any cd's or anything like that, I just did a simple test to see if it works and it did. After that, I tried to install Windows 98, but you need Windows 98 Upgrade, so I didn't bother with that anymore.
Also, it was not being used for about a year too, and I just pulled it out to start using it.
That's about all I have to say that can relate to a possible problem.
MORE HELP ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE...
I wanted to upgrade to Windows 98 because I wanted to run some Visual Basics .NET applications, but since I couldn't do that... I thought why not learn JAVA since Windows 95 can run that. I was thinking to just build the program on my "faster" computer and transfer it to the old one. There is one problem though, I can't open MS-DOS on my Windows XP computer. It mentions something about not being able to run under windows applications or something. What can I do?
Note: I would like to save my Pentium I if possible, and I still want to learn JAVA even if it dies.
I have an older computer and it was working just yesterday, and I was just about to use it to do calculations 20 hours a day, but that doesn't look like it will happen.
It's a Pentium I - 133Mhz computer, and it runs Windows 95. The current display is...
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
I have no clue what they are talking about when they say "SYSTEM DISK". What specifically is it? Since I probably don't have it, can I download it?
Other info...
I just installed a DVD/CD-Writer in it, on Friday, to replace the non-working CD Drive. I did not burn any cd's or anything like that, I just did a simple test to see if it works and it did. After that, I tried to install Windows 98, but you need Windows 98 Upgrade, so I didn't bother with that anymore.
Also, it was not being used for about a year too, and I just pulled it out to start using it.
That's about all I have to say that can relate to a possible problem.
MORE HELP ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE...
I wanted to upgrade to Windows 98 because I wanted to run some Visual Basics .NET applications, but since I couldn't do that... I thought why not learn JAVA since Windows 95 can run that. I was thinking to just build the program on my "faster" computer and transfer it to the old one. There is one problem though, I can't open MS-DOS on my Windows XP computer. It mentions something about not being able to run under windows applications or something. What can I do?
Note: I would like to save my Pentium I if possible, and I still want to learn JAVA even if it dies.