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  1. koldkane

    98/XP Dual Boot...Can't Get 98...No Floppy

    Thanks wolluf...re: getting the flooppy drive working"...if I do the alt+f alt+e that gets me to my default BIOS settings correct? My question about that is I had upgraded my bios from Dell a couple of years ago...will it wipe that out? Also do I have to have the removable device highlited...
  2. koldkane

    Have Adaware, do I need Spybot

    I use both Adaware and Spybot....1 picks up whatever the other misses.
  3. koldkane

    98/XP Dual Boot...Can't Get 98...No Floppy

    Hey bcastner...what will this do?
  4. koldkane

    98/XP Dual Boot...Can't Get 98...No Floppy

    Ok....I created a boot CD, booted from it and typed SYS C: Restarted and Win98 booted successfully, yay. And I can see my A: drive now, although it still doesn't work, must have got fried somehow? So then I booted to WinXP CD to repair the boot loader. Chooose Repair Chose 1 Put in my password...
  5. koldkane

    98/XP Dual Boot...Can't Get 98 and No Floppy

    Ok....I created a boot CD, booted from it and typed SYS C: Restarted and Win98 booted successfully, yay. And I can see my A: drive now, although it still doesn't work, must have got fried somehow? So then I booted to WinXP CD to repair the boot loader. Chooose Repair Chose 1 Put in my password...
  6. koldkane

    98/XP Dual Boot...Can't Get 98...No Floppy

    Hi Ladyg...under Contol Panel fom XP there is no A drive listed at all...shows disk controller with no errors, but no actual drive!? Also just recently noticed I don't have a boot.ini file on my C drive. Shouldn't there be one?
  7. koldkane

    98/XP Dual Boot...Can't Get 98 and No Floppy

    Thanks guys...I had just finished doing a complete virus scan and defrag on my PC and run Norton System Works, as I do daily, just before this happened. So I'm pretty sure it's not a virus. After the crash I ran virus scan and System works on that hard drive again from XP and found no problems...
  8. koldkane

    98/XP Dual Boot...Can't Get 98 and No Floppy

    Hi All, I have a Dell PIII 500 with 512 Ram. I'm dual booting...Win98 off one primary partitioned 14 gig hard drive and XP off another slave partitioned 40 gig HD. I was working with a music making app in Win98 when I got a blue screen...after rebooting and getting to my dual boot screen to...
  9. koldkane

    98/XP Dual Boot...Can't Get 98...No Floppy

    Hi All, I have a Dell PIII 500 with 512 Ram. I'm dual booting...Win98 off one primary partitioned 14 gig hard drive and XP off another slave partitioned 40 gig HD. I was working with a music making app in Win98 when I got a blue screen...after rebooting and getting to my dual boot screen to...

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