aquamarineafterglow
Technical User
Hi all,
I have a gateway pii 233mhz. I had a quantum 4.2 Gb HD in it and according to what everyone was telling me, my hard drive was dying. It had gotten to the point where if I was running windows, it would go to blue screen and say "could not write to drive C" and on a cold boot, it would not even find the operating system. The quantum is about 3.5 years old, so I suppose it was time!!!! I have now installed a maxtor 30Gb drive and now when I startup my computer with several boot up disks that I have (one that came with the maxtor, a win 95 bootup, and a winME boot up disk) None of the boot up disks will work. The floppy drive is acting strangely, the light comes on at cold boot whether or not threre is a floppy in it or not and stays on the whole time the power is on. If I put a floppy in, the drive will spin it, just not read it. I have double checked all the connections and they are ALL correct. Has my floppy drive now went caput? Or is there something that I don't know that I'm supposed to do at this point? Any help would be appreciated!! Oh, also, the cmos is picking up the maxtor and it's settings perfectly, I didn't have to flash it!
Thanks in advance,
Aqua
I have a gateway pii 233mhz. I had a quantum 4.2 Gb HD in it and according to what everyone was telling me, my hard drive was dying. It had gotten to the point where if I was running windows, it would go to blue screen and say "could not write to drive C" and on a cold boot, it would not even find the operating system. The quantum is about 3.5 years old, so I suppose it was time!!!! I have now installed a maxtor 30Gb drive and now when I startup my computer with several boot up disks that I have (one that came with the maxtor, a win 95 bootup, and a winME boot up disk) None of the boot up disks will work. The floppy drive is acting strangely, the light comes on at cold boot whether or not threre is a floppy in it or not and stays on the whole time the power is on. If I put a floppy in, the drive will spin it, just not read it. I have double checked all the connections and they are ALL correct. Has my floppy drive now went caput? Or is there something that I don't know that I'm supposed to do at this point? Any help would be appreciated!! Oh, also, the cmos is picking up the maxtor and it's settings perfectly, I didn't have to flash it!
Thanks in advance,
Aqua