Hmmmm, I overlooked most of this thread. Can you can boot from a cd and see c: at all? If you boot from Win95 and have an NTFS partition I think it won't recognize C:. I just had a laptop that kept losing the C drive, had to send the drive back to Gateway and the new one was immediately recognized and still works fine. I don't know if the drive was bad or just poor contact at the connector. I suspect the connector since I could push the drive into it's slot and wedge it firmly and it would work. I ghosted the sucker to a USB external using an XP bootable CD. Then re-ghosted from the image back to the new drive. Great idea Wayne. Worked like a jewel. ;^)
Bruce -----Original Message----- Thanks for the leads. I will check into this later today. I have booted with a Win95 Floppy install disk, but when I type in C:\ and hit enter, I get an Invalid Drive message. Rod Lindgren -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Can you set the bios to boot from cd? Do you have a floppy drive on the machine? Memtest+ 86 is bootable. <http://www.memtest.org/#downiso> I've never run it from a cd, but I have from a floppy. You could also try one of the Linux live boot cds and see if you can run that. No need to install anything, it will run in a ram disc and might provide some useful diagnostic info if it can't run because of a hardware problem -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
