>I am hoping this is the proper place to ask. I was using a 486 >Zenith with MS-DOS 3.3 until it stopped working today. When I >turned it on, the only thing that came on the screen was the >error message "This is not a bootable partition". Pressing F2 >does nothing. Any suggestions anyone? > >So far, everyone has provided good info that is applicable to >this problem. But I'm surprised that no one mentioned a just- >as-common cause (on an older machine) as a failed drive: a dead >CMOS RAM battery, which provides the BIOS with info about the >type of hard drive installed... or even if there is one installed. > Thank you all for your advise on how to fix my machine. It works now. I hit the "Esc" and got into the set up page. No hard drive was listed so I kept choosing different settings and restarting. Lucky for me the third choice worked. My computer has restarted without an issue since. I wish I could answer the questions about what kind of hard drive or BIOS is in my computer, but I haven't figured out those things yet. I was just getting good at typing at the C promt and then the computer lost its settings. I went straight from a commadore 64 to Windows 95 so MS-DOS is a whole new challenge for me. I am keeping all of your suggestions so that in the future I can fix issues on my own. Thanks again!
_________________________________________________________________ <b>Get MSN 8</b> and enjoy automatic e-mail virus protection. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
