| Subject: Re: flopy drive |
Author:
H. Noland
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Date Posted: 01:12:34 10/22/99 Fri
In reply to:
S. Allen
's message, "Re: flopy drive" on 21:58:43 10/19/99 Tue
> I had just one partition, and the suspend to disk
> partition. The only reason I reformatted the hard
> drive was to make sure that there wasn't any old
> information on the drive when I reinstalled Windows.
> Incidentally, I was really paranoid that if the floppy
> was not working, I would have a huge hassle reloading
> windows 98, as you have to use the setup floppy to get
> things going.
>
> It turns out that I did have a problem loading
> windows, but I don't think this was because of any
> concern about the floppy (Recall both the old and new
> had the problem of hanging right after a write). The
> load routine went fine, and then when it came time to
> format the hard drive,
> (in WINDOWS 98) it kept asking me to put in the
> Windows 98 CD in the C: drive or the CD--and it was
> already in (the D: Drive). I opened and closed the
> door several times, and tried several different
> things. Eventually, I used an emergency boot disk
> that had FORMAT on it to FORMAT the hard drive, and
> then ran the WINDOWS installer--this worked great. I
> am suspicious that my Windows 98 setup disk might be
> bad (I had never used it, but I noticed that it wasn't
> write locked). Anyway, the whole idea was to make
> sure that the new Windows installation was clean and
> not just over-writing previous files. It sounds like
> you have done this with the partition for windows.
>
> I did learn it was a good idea to have an "emergency"
> disk around with FDISK and FORMAT in case the install
> procedure didn't work.
>
> I am not an expert, particularly with DOS. I would
> imagine that some driver was corrupted, although I ran
> the check system files, etc. and could find nothing
> wrong. I use the floppy to write disks that go to my
> keyboard, or I probably wouldn't have discovered this
> and don't know how long it was the case.
>
> I had also check that the floppy had the same "hang"
> problem BOTH with the external cable and when I
> inserted it into the laptop, to make sure that it
> wasn't due to some problems with bad connections, etc.
>
> I hope it works, as I know these things are
> frustrating!
>
> > Thank you for the idea. i have reformated the drive
> > that windows is on. u mentioned reformating the hard
> > drive. did u mean the intire hard drive? i added one
> > partition so i now have drive c and d.
i had also made up a floppy with format.com on it along with the cd drivers. still have the same problem, i also believe it a driver problem and like u have not found it yet. i do believe i will send it in and see if it can be replaced and if i get the same problem then it is either a software problem or a bios problem. by the do u have a copy of the "supend to disk" floppy. i believe my floppy may have corupted it. u can email it if u would...thank S.Allen
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