{"id":7386,"date":"2021-11-24T00:18:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T00:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=7386"},"modified":"2021-11-24T00:18:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T00:18:35","slug":"non-system-disk-or-disk-error","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/dos\/nonsystem-disk-or-disk-error\/17176.html","title":{"rendered":"Non-System Disk Or Disk Error!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After all the trials and tribulations getting MS-DOS 6.22 to recognise my slave HDD on IDE0 at D:\\<br \/>\n[ see here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160719063634\/https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/dos\/cannot-get-dos-to-see-second-hdd\/17174.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/do&#8230;<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p>I finally succeeded [thanks to Mechanix2Go] getting it formatted. It is a 20Gb seagate with a partition of 1960Mb. I got MS-DOS 7.10 installed &#8211; as it had previously refused to see the drive also.<br \/>\nGreat! It went fine, I set it to dual-boot with XP and it assured me that it would also boot back to my DOS 6.22 at any time [which is on C:\\] if i would just press F4..<br \/>\nFantastic! That is exactly what I was going for..<br \/>\nBut NO!! When I choose MS-DOS 7.10 from the boot menu, I get the beautiful resoponse of:<br \/>\nNon-System disk or disk error<br \/>\nReplace and press and key when ready.<br \/>\nI have tried install again [off boot cd] and tried to install off boot floppies, but alas, it is not to be..<br \/>\nNice.<\/p>\n<p>Any help with this issue would be much appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nBen.<br \/>\np.s. I know the square brackets look silly but my normal bracket keys refuse to work on this keyboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":2},"question-category":[60],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-7386","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-dos"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/7386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=7386"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=7386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}