re: Problem with Win95 start up Sunday, October 24, 2004 at 2:55 am Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by kirk (1 messages posted) hi i think i may know what the problem is. the Primary IDE cable on you motherboard may be set to secondary rather than primary, or the IDE cables are facing the wrong way they are supposed to be red to red. i had this problem in college and somebody put the primary IDE on the secondary Connector on the motherboard. hope this helps kirk On Monday, May 24, 2004 at 3:10 pm, chuck wrote: >Many thanks for your kind response. >When I switch on the computer, it says- > >Wait… > >And after about a minute the message- > >Primary HDC failure >Press FI to RESUME > >-Comes on. > >When I press FI, it says- > >Drive NOT READY >Insert Boot diskette in A: >Press any key when ready. > >When I insert the Windows 95 boot diskette I downloaded from the Internet as the >computer did not come with a boot diskette, and press a key, it says- > >Non-System disk or disk error >Replace and strike any key when ready > >-I replace it and strike a key. The message is repeated. Any clue as to what the >problem might be? ck > > > > Written in response to: re: Problem with Win95 start up (chuck: Monday, May 24, 2004 at 3:10 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Problem with Win95 start up (chuck: Fri, May 21, 2004, 2:46 pm) re: Problem with Win95 start up (Steve Dunn: Fri, May 21, 2004, 4:31 pm) re: Problem with Win95 start up (chuck: Mon, May 24, 2004, 3:10 pm) re: Problem with Win95 start up (kirk: Sun, Oct 24, 2004, 2:55 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 95 Discussion Forum