You apparently downloaded the file onto the floppy. To make the bootable
floppy, you need to run the file on your computer and it will prompt you to
put a floppy disk into the drive. It then will write to the disk and create
a bootable floppy.

Hope this helps.

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
a friend has given me a M.E. installation cd.
 i have went to freepctech.com and downloaded[on floppy] a boot disk for
M.E.
  while trying to format the hard drive
    i get *****NON-SYSTEM DISK OR DISK ERROR.
 REPLACE AND PRESS ANY KEY WHEN READY.
i have took disk out and reinserted and pressed key------and once just
pressed key without takeout.same thing took place.
 i have done this in NORMAL. THEN TRIED SAFE MODE.
       MESSAGE KEEPS REPEATING WITH PRESS OF KEY.

can you help??

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