Using a new floppy disk I would try making a new boot disk. Then try
booting again.
Kenwyn Snell wrote:
> My floppy drive began to make mechanical noises and was unable to boot
> any floppy disks. It sometimes failed to read diskettes. I have changed
> it and it works fine except that I am unable to boot from the new drive
> also. I get message "error 0x80".
> Boot first from drive A is enabled in the BIOS.
>
> CPU: Pentium 100
> Memory: 64 M EDO
> OS: Win 98
> Bios: MR Bios
> I will be upgrading soon but need to use in the meantime. ...
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