-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Gateway PC & strange message

Ooops! NOT W87...W98 LOL My fingers stumbled. I am going back over to their
house and pull of the case and check all the connections.

Again...thanks Glen,

Sylvia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sylvia" <sylviam@xxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 3:27 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Gateway PC & strange message



Thanks for your thoughts on this, Glen. I also remember that someplace in
the different combinations that I tried it did say something about W87 has
detected that C drive down not contain a valid FAT or FAT32 partition. I
had forgotten about that until I read your message. If I partition it in
Fdisk from the MS Dos command prompt then all the info on it will be
erased, correct? And I would need to re-install W98 right?

Well of course, when people give away older puters, they never give the
software with it. Like the W98 CD that came with it. I did ask the person
if they had it, but they said no.

Thanks,

USA-Sylvia


----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen" <glbbrown@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 3:21 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Gateway PC & strange message



Sylvia,
My first suspect would be a cable had come loose
during transportation.

I would open it up and look at the cables to make sure
they are all connect. Also take a look at the drives
power connections.

It also could be your bios. Say if the CMOS battery
came loose and lost all the information in bios. Then
the computer might not know there is drives to look
for.

Just my two thoughts.

Glen

--- Sylvia <sylviam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I was given a Gateway 2000 computer that runs W98,
> it's a Pentium 166, 3
> gig HD dr. I had it at my house for several days
> while I dumped the
> favorites, emails, documents etc that had belonged
> to the former owner. I
> did nothing that would affect the registry and so
> forth, just cleaned up
> any passwords etc. Changed the Registered Owner
> since my son & his wife
> were to be the recipients of it. I shut down and
> rebooted several times
> during that time with never one problem.
>
> Then delivered it across town (very small town).
> When we tried to boot up
> we received this strange message:
>
> "Insert bootable media in the appropriate drive"  I
> have never seen this
> message before in all the time I had it cleaning it
> up. Then I tried
> putting a W98 boot disk in, same message. So I
> inserted a W98 CD and the
> boot disk, shut down and rebooted. Same message. I
> tried a few combinations
> of leaving one or both in and once it booted up like
> there was no problem.
> But not wanting to leave them with a problem since
> they are not PC
> knowledgeable, I shut it down through the Start>Shut
> Down. Rebooted. Same
> dang message.
>
> What can I do to fix this? Why would it just start
> doing this all of a
> sudden. Do we need to exorcise his house?? LOL It
> worked fine at my house.
>
> Thanks in advance for any and all help,
>
> USA-Sylvia
>
>
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