Can't Boot

[moonlight burner]

It's a Monday morning, didn't even got my chance to sit down and have a cup of coffee, and I got my first 'casualty'. It's a Win95 machine, Pentium 1-233MHZ, 96 MB SDRAM (PC100 1 Stick 32MB n another stick 64MB). HD 4.3 MAXTOR, and TX-PRO II Socket 7 MOBO.

So I tried the boot from a floppy disk, and use command, sys c:
And I after I reboot, just the C: prompt comes out.

I'm out of tricks here. I don't want to do a reformat now, before I get some help from the sages.

Thanks in advance !

[Force Flow]

Try typing in "win" at the C: prompt.

[Markoman01027]

Sounds like your PC cant find a boot device. Make sure an OS installed on the hard drive, and the partition is set to ACTIVE in FDISK. Make sure you have no floopy disk in your drive that is bootable, and set your BIOS boot sequence to boot from your hard drive first and see if that works.
You probably already tried to transfer system files to the hard drive, so that it could make it bootable.
Hope that helps!

[moonlight burner]

The boot partition is set ACTIVE oright. BIOS boot sequence to boot from harddisk, also oright.

I've been thinking, if i copy files that are responsible for booting up a Win95 system from one that is working to the one that has trouble, it might just work. But I'm not sure what exactly are the files, any directions on that ?

[Force Flow]

That's iffy. Depending on what's been upgraded between the two O/S's it may make the problems worse.

Try typing "dir" and see if you come up with anything. If not, then the HDD is probably disconnected (or worse) may have gone bad. But don't give up hope yet.

[moonlight burner]

Ok, I 'm back on track. By copying system files from another HD that's working to the 'corrupted' one, It's back to normal.

Luckily it's not CIH - APRIL The 26th, if I remembered correctly.

Thanks!