B: drive error while booting up

[wombatz]

B: drive error appears while booting up on a 98 PC can anyone give adive what this error means?

 

[edfair]

CMOS thinks it is there, but it isn't. Or it finds a drive that CMOS doesn't know about. Or it doesn't turm , or doesn't seek to 0.
Would be easier to make the guess if your hardware and BIOS settings were available. Ed Fair
unixstuff@juno.com
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[Crustyoldbloke]

Ed's quite correct (as usual). On BOOT press DEL to enter BIOS and have a look at what is already setup. Usually A=FLOPPY, B=2nd FLOPPY or ZIP, C=HDD, D=CDrom.

Your setup may be different to the above by design, however, if you don't have a ZIP drive or an external BACKUP facility in addition to your FLOPPY, then you'll have to adjust your BIOS accordingly. Regards
Phil

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[Win98User]

A passing thought - make sure the "Swap floppy drive" is not enabled in the BIOS. (of course, that setting might not be available).

Regards.