Floppy disk setup disk woe !

[JayE]

Hi,

I'm trying to reinstall Word for Windows 95 onto my laptop PC follow a reinstall of Windows.

As it's an upgrade product, during Disk 1, the program asks for the qualifying product location so I have inserted Disk 1 of Word for Windows 2.0 and this is accepted and the install continues.

But when I go to put Disk 1 back into the drive, it makes the most awful clicking/ticking sound and nothing's happening. Naturally, I removed the disk.

I know it's not the drive because the noise doesn't happen when I place the Word for Windows 2.0 disk in there again - or any other disk.

Thinking it may be the metal shutter being slightly awry and causing it, I've removed it - but the problem remains.

Can I get hold of a replacement Disk 1 for this program?

Any thoughts?

Regards,
Jay/UK

 

[WindowWizard]

Do you wait for the installation program to specifically ask you to reinsert Disk 1? If not, wait and see if that helps.

Other than that, you can copy all the diskettes to a temp diretory (name each fold DISK1, DISK2, etc.) and install from there.

 

[JayE]

Hi,

Yes to your first question.

Since I can't access the disk at all, please advise how do I copy the contents to another disk?

I may, however, see if I can read the disk in another disk drive.

Regards,
Jay/UK

 

[tido213]

The simplist way to copy the disk is to go to a DOS prompt and do the following.

diskcopy a: a:

then follow the prompts.

However, if you decide to copy the Office Suite to the HDD make sure that you create a folder for this then a subfolder for each disk naming each folder with the following format (note: there are no spaces).

disk1
disk2
disk3

etc.

 

[JayE]

Hi,

I'll see if it can read at DOS prompt when I get home tonight.

Regards,
Jay/UK

 

[WindowWizard]

Can you read the disk on a different machine? Floppy drive head alignments get pretty skewed at times. It may be that your drive head is skewed one way and the head that created the diskette was skewed the other, enough to make it unreadable on your drive.