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From: stevek@hpausla.aso.hp.com (Steve Klos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: XT Doesn't Boot From C:
Message-ID: <7220001@hpausla.aso.hp.com>
Date: 29 Nov 90 12:56:06 GMT
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Dave Polakowski <polo@hagar.Solbourne.COM> writes in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:
> Hello all ---

> My XT clone has suddenly decided it doesn't want to boot from the hard
> disk, and I need some help.

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> Tuesday I turned on the system and got the "Non-system disk..."
> error message.  Since then I cannot get the system to boot from
> the hard disk.  If I boot from floppy, I can access C: and run
> programs, etc.  I reinstalled the old floppy controller and still
> have the problem.

Dave,

The last time I encountered this problem, it was my own fault.  Seems
I did one of those stupid things that no one does if they've had a PC
for any time at all :-).

What I had done was to type erase *.*.  Of course when the question of
'are you sure' came up, I answered yes, I wouldn't have typed in the
command unless I was sure!  Well, I happend to have the C: drive as my
current drive instead of the A: drive.  I had erased all the files
from the root directory of my C: drive (embarrassing, but true).  My
recovery was to use my backup (at least I had one) to recover the
files in the root directory.

Hope this helps,

SK