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The new battery did the trick. Thanks to everyone for your help!

Thanks everyone! I bought a new battery and will install it this afternoon . Report to follow.

My BIOS has the setting you mentioned. Should I set it for "Enabled?" Re the battery, wouldn't I get a battery error message?

Thanks for your response. I'm not getting a battery error message, so I assume the battery is OK. Not sure what you mean by disable "Seek on POST"

I have an old Gateway running Windows 95. The computer has two floppy drives, a 5 1/4 on top and a 3 1/2 inch below. When I boot the computer up My Computer shows only the 5 1/4 drive (A drive) defining it as a 3 1/2 drive. I can go into CMOS and enter the correct information for the two drives...

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Your recommendation worked. I was able to install DOS. And the computer boots to the hard drive. Thanks so much for all your help!

To get close to the parameters you list, I select DISK 1 = 3. With that, all the parameters you list are the same, except PRECOMP = 300.

I found this hard drive on eBay that appears to be the same as the one in my system https://www.ebay.com/itm/175217560134

It is not possible to manually change the parameters. They come up automatically when you specify the size of the hard drive. The figures I gave you before were for a 31 mb hard drive. If I change to a 32 mb hard drive, the figures are cyl 925, heads 9, sectors 17, precomp none.. With these...

Thanks for your input! Turns out that the parameters are set automatically based on the size of the hard drive. Mine is 31 mb. Based on this the cyls are 918, heads 11, sectors 17, and precompiled is none. The computer still won't boot to the C drive. I also can't save to the hard drive. When I...

The 5.25 floppy covers the hard drive. I removed it to reveal the top of the hard drive. There is a sticker reading ST-138. Beyond that is a sticker with some data on it. Under CYL1 are the figures 206, 180, 181, 216, 609. Under HD are the figures 1, 1, 1. 4, 4. Under BFI are the figures 603...

Yes, the CMOS battery was dead. i replaced it with a new one. i can hear the hard drive spin.

Glory be! I just took another look in the original box and there, in a hidden compartment was the complete set of master disks.

I have a Vendex Headstart III that was my first computer. I'm now in the process of recommissioning it. Sometime back I loaned it to my brother who formatted the hard drive before returning it to me. (grrr) Destroyed all the Vendex software. And, while I have every other thing that came with...

Yes, I can boot to a floppy.

I have a Vendex Headstart III computer from the 1991. It is not a Windows computer, just DOS. When I attempt to boot it up I get the error message "ERROR ENCOUNTERED INITIALIZING HARD DRIVE" Does anyone know of a fix for this? I live in Riverside California. Does anyone know of vintage...