PC card not recognized on boot from C:, but recognized on boot from A:

[Hoary]

s-) I have an older NEC Versa 550D laptop with a Panasonic SCSI PC card driving a Panasonic external CD-ROM. When I boot from the C: drive it doesn't recognize the PC card, but when I boot from a floppy with the identical OS version and configuration it runs fine. I don't even know where to start with this one.

 

[HugoGuessit]

I'd recommend starting with removing and reinstalling the pcmcia card slots in the device manager under safe mode. Let it reinstall and see what happens. Because the pc-card slots work off the floppy but not the hard drive, windows is causing a driver or resource conflict. If r&r doesn't work, just run the restore.
good luck. hg

 

[Hoary]

X-) I'm sorry I neglected to say that as a result of this problem I can't install Windows as it hangs up at the "Are you installing from a device that will be disabled in the next step?" (or something like that).