i have a quantex computer with a celeron processor..i am putting a new harddrive in it that is formatted and it won't let me load a operating system because when i turn on the computer it goes to a black screen with "boot disk error, insert system disk and press enter" at the top.. i am tryin to put windows 98 on it for a base for Linux..
2006-12-11 08:41:50 · 6 answers · asked by pat v 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Go to BIOS, and choose CDROM as your first boot device. Make sure you have inserted the cd, save and restart computer.
2006-12-11 08:45:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are a couple of issues here.
1. That hard drive does not have an operating sy6stem loaded on the hard drive. The machine is checking the hard drive for an Operating system and finds one then checks your floppy drive for a boot up disk. If it does not find an operating system then you will recieve the load system disk prompt on the all black screen. This is when you would load the system disk with the operating system you would want to creat
2. Win98 are you aware that Microsoft has dropped support for Win98 years ago?
3 One of the things you may want to try is try loading either win200 or winXP on your HD operating systems (OS) in that process for a new HD you will be prompted to format your hard drive. Create a few partitions on your hard drive One partiton for a Dos based environment Win98 is a Dos based OS. One partition for either WIN2000 Pro or WINXP these two operating systems are NTFS based operating systems. Then creat a partition for your Linux operating system.
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2006-12-11 09:07:31 · answer #2 · answered by sodaorpop 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your computer may be too advanced for win98...or the hard drive may not be properly attached and the motherboard is not reading it....try putting in a boot disc for any operating system and see if that gets you to the format screen
2006-12-11 08:51:26 · answer #3 · answered by susuze2000 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-18 03:09:58 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try this ,Put the disk in and then restart the pc.Power down and restart from on /off button.IT should go to disk.
2006-12-11 08:47:10 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check your bios settings to ensure that your CD/DVD is on the boot device list.
2006-12-11 08:46:59 · answer #6 · answered by Colby 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋