After booting from the floppy, try the command
c:\windows\command\sys a: c:

This will copy the diskette's boot files to the harddisk.
It should fail if the diskette is not the same version of
windows, but it helps to check that it is before attempting
it.  Try the command
ver

to see what version of windows was used to make the diskette
bootable.

You could also check using the fdisk command to make sure
your hard disk primary partition is set to active.
Tom Turak

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 3:35 PM
Hi All-
I was working on an older 486 machine for a friend,  actually installing
one of those y2k bios cards so he could avoid a more expensive upgrade.  I
installed the card, rebooted to dos and ran a check program just to make
sure the thing really would work.  Everything went fine, so I powered down
the machine and rebooted, and now I can't get windows to load from the hard
drive. The floppy boots fine, and niether scandisk nor norton reports thier
being anything wrong with the drive. I can also freely access the drive.

I tried to do an fdisk /mbr, didn't help, and I scanned for viruses as
well, not that either.

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