Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 09:12:32 +0200 From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Floppy/CD Usage - OS/HD Upgrade - HD Disappears
Mark Srebnik wrote: > > Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 16:08:45 -0700 > From: Mark Srebnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Floppy/CD Usage - OS/HD Upgrade - HD Disappears > > Just tried to setup a new 20 GB HD in my 110CT...weird stuff happening.. > > Tried to follow approach shown below...but problems... > > If I boot Win98SE boot floppy disk then select my CD Drive to load the DOS > drivers, it makes the CD drive the 'C' drive! No other boot disks? (DOS 6.2, Win95, .....)? > So when I try to copy the Win OS files over the hard drive, I can't as > there's no hard drive 'there'. In other words, the 'A' drive is my floppy > drive, but it's treating the 'B' drive as the floppy too! and the 'C' drive > is the CD drive! > > If I try other drive letters (those after A,B,C) like D,E, etc I get invalid > drive spec error message. > > To make sure my hard drive is there, I rebooted normally (without CD drive > support) and my hard drive is there as the 'C' drive! but then no CD drive > support.... - (most obvious one I'd say:) Have you put EZ-drive or some other disk manager on the HD? if so, you can't boot from floppy just like that, you'll have to boot EZ-drive from HD first and then continue booting from floppy through the EZ-drive menu (usually you'd have to hit <Space> to get into that). - Have you tried FDISK / MBR? - Virus on your boot floppy? Philip
