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


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