The floppy you tried to create didn't do it properly.  The system can't do anything 
without the command.com so you are dead in the water without it on the floppy or 
the HDD.  There could be a variety of reasons including a hardware failure of some 
kind..  This could range from a bad motherboard (or PSU or memory), to a bad drive, 
to a bad program that you downloaded to make the disk.  This is where I recommended 
someone with known good media and tools to try and diagnose your problems.  Floppies 
often work well one day and fail the next, same with drives.  CDR media can fail 
too, but I suspect the discs you have are probably pressed so they won't fail unless 
damaged, or were bad to begin with which isn't your case..  Either the utilities 
on the floppy are not there or are corrupt, or your HDD is not being identified during 
POST for some reason and can't be seen by the format utility.  I would say it's time 
for the help from a Pro.  That's a tough one on older computers as the cost to fix 
them is more than buying a new machine.  (unless someone volunteers like I do for 
Seniors and others in my area)  Good Luck though!!  :-)







On Sunday, April 22, 2007 at 7:57 am, Linda wrote:

>BTW, I also tried Carol's advice, only got the "bad command", etc. statement.