Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 07:42:58 -0700 From: Mark Srebnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Floppy/CD Usage - OS/HD Upgrade - HD Disappears
Thanks for your help Matt! But turns out that I just needed to let EZ-Drive start boot and then boot from floppy... ;-) Thanks, Mark Less Frustrated Silicone Valley Libretterati on 10/3/04 9:06 PM, Matt Hanson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 21:06:09 -0700 (PDT) > From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] Floppy/CD Usage - OS/HD Upgrade - HD Disappears > > Sounds like you may have problems with the DOS drivers > you set up to access your CD-ROM drive in DOS. How > did you go about that? What drivers from where? > Which CD-ROM drive? What do the autoexec.bat and > config.sys files look like? > > There's always the laplink cable connection to any > other system David suggested for getting the files in > \Win98 from the OS CD to your new HDD. > > Matt > > --- Mark Srebnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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! >> >> 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. [SNIP] >> Mark >> Frustrated Silicone Valley Libretterati
