Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 07:40:38 -0700 From: Mark Srebnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Floppy/CD Usage - OS/HD Upgrade - HD Disappears
Hi Philip, Well, right on target as usual! You were right, I have EZ-Drive installed and wasn't following the right boot up steps...once I did it assigned the CD drive as 'E'... So just copied OS files over to HD... ;-) Thanks! Mark Not-so-frustrated Silicone Valley Libretterati on 10/4/04 12:12 AM, Philip Nienhuis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 > >
