Have you set the BIOS to seek the floppy drive?  You also need to designate
the floppy drive as one of the boot sequences.  Either/both of these need to
be set before you can boot from a floppy.  You do not need to "sys" the hard
drive, since you want to "fdisk" it in the first place.

Byron Wolter

I am building a computer, ASUS A7V mobo, 256 ram, Western Digital 30 gig hd,
900 mhz.  I fdisked and formated the hd.  Went to a Win98se machine and
created a windows start up disk but it still will not boot- says non system
disk.  Tried a differet disk, check the floppy cable, everything is working.
A friend told me to "sys" the HD.  How do I do this if I can't get it to an
A:\?  I need to know what files make up the "system files".

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