Ok here is my issue. I have a Packard Bell 286 that I bought a couple of years ago to play my old games on. I bought a Dos 3.3 OS which I use to boot to so I can play. The hard drive would not work so I essentially removed it and went on my merry way. I decided recently to put a working HD in the computer so I picked up a working 40 MB Quantam. My issue is this. As there is no OS on the hd, it will not boot. The computer reads the drive (it had some old programs on it when I bought it and they worked fine, but I formatted the drive in hopes of putting DOS or Windows on it) but says there is a non-system disk and will not boot until I put the DOS 3.3 disk in my 5.25 drive. The issue there is, once DOS boots, it will not acknowledge I have a HD, drive C:.
I took the HD back out, hooked it up to an old Pentium with a HD and installed Windows 3.1 hoping the computer would boot from Wndows. Nope. No such luck. The computer has a 3.5 drive, but it will not boot from that drive which means I cannot use a boot disk (and if I could, I don’t know if it would do like the 5.25 and act like the HD isn’t there). I’ve tried everything from disconnecting the 5.25 to disconnecting both in hopes the HD would work. I simply cannot get it to work.
Any advice?
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