my old P75 wouldn't boot up

[heal_me]

i haven't touched it for months, my brother told me it didn't get to win95.

> Non-System disk or disk error
> Replace and press any key when ready

From the BIOS it seems normal, it detect HDD...
but i couldn't access the floppy.
First i thought it was a simple crash but for 5 hrs until now i still can't fix it.

Non-System means no system detected. but how can i fix it when there is no prompts at all??? (eventhough i don't have any win95 command.com arround me) http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/mad.gif http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/eek.gif

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[YODA74]

are ya sure ya don't have a floppy or a cd stuck in there??
Ahhhh! wait a minute here check this out?


Inky is a memory resident, boot sector infecting virus. It infects diskette boot sectors. It is "dropped" by the Blinky virus.
When the system user attempts to boot the system from a diskette infected with the Inky virus, the Inky virus is read into memory, and the user receives the following message on the system display:

"Non-System disk or disk error. Replace and press any key when ready..."

When the user replaces the diskette with an unwrite protected diskette, the Inky virus is transferred to the diskette boot sector on the newly inserted diskette, and the system fails once again with the above message. This process continues until the user powers off the system and boots from a clean diskette, or the system hard disk.

The Inky virus overwrites the disk boot sector located at Sector 0 when it infects a diskette. The original boot sector is not saved.

Additional Comments:
The Inky, or Inky Ghost, virus was submitted in September, 1993, and is one of three related viruses which all have names of characters from the popular Pac-Man video game. Inky is a memory resident infector of diskette boot sectors. It is "dropped" by the Blinky virus, which is described in its own entry. When the system user attempts to boot the system from a diskette infected with the Inky virus, the Inky virus will be read into memory, and the user will receive the following message on the system display: "Non-System disk or disk error. Replace and press any key when ready..." When the user replaces the diskette with an unwrite protected diskette, the Inky virus will then be transferred to the diskette boot sector on the newly inserted disk, and the system will fail once again with the above message. This process continues until the user powers off the system and boots from a clean diskette, or the system hard disk. The Inky virus overwrites the disk boot sector located at Sector 0 when it infects a disk. The original boot sector is not saved. Infected boot sectors will contain the following text strings: "[-Inky!-]" "[INKY Ghost] by PacMan and Associates Inc." "Non-System disk or disk error." "Replace and press any key when ready..." The Inky virus can be removed from system disks by performing the DOS SYS command following a clean system boot. On data, or non- system diskettes, Sector 0 should be overwritten using a disk editor, or the files on the disk copied to a new, uninfected diskette and the infected disk reformatted. Note that DOS 5+ users should use the /U option to ensure the diskette is actually overwritten.

http://vil.nai.com/vil/virusSummary.asp?virus_k=602 and here
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q128/7/30.ASP

your probobly going to need to go to the microsoft link for got you were running 95 the MS link is for 95/98
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[This message has been edited by YODA74 (edited 11-08-2001).]

[heal_me]

Yes, I thought it was a virus cause (i think) no one in my house can operate computer as deleting system files or mess with the BIOS... At least i still think so...

OK, i manage to explore the harddrive using winme-startup-disk.
checked the system files that i know would be there:io.sys/dos, command.com, etc...

I set all atributes to +a +s, then i copied to floppy so i would have a win95 startup-disk, then i got tyred and very sleepy... then i went to bed... This mornin, i found the monitor absent...missing...gone...(it's another story).

The important thing that i think all the system files were all in place.
What else can be wrong beside the virus that YODA74 showed me...
it still can't read the system from harddrive...
how can I do the oldtime trick = sys c: ??....?
can someone has a win95startupdisk's files? or links?

*thanks for YODA74 for the reply http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

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[mjc]

Replace the CMOS battery, reset the BIOS to defaults, and if you have the option to autodetect the hard drive use it. It may be that the battery is getting weak and causing the BIOS not to recognize the drive at first, it could also be a damaged hard drive.

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