Win 95 doesn't accept floppies

[ComputerFreak]

Hi!

I am a newbie here. I have a little problem: my floppy drive doesn't work but it boots off of it. It only has a floppie drive and not a floppy drive. Please try to help me if you can. It is running Windows 95. I know it is an old computer, but I need this for my child because I'm low on ca$h.

It is an old Gateway 2000 Colorbook squared. I was trying to get drivers for my Linksys PCMPC100 Ethernet Cord (dongol connection) so that I could go online with it. I tried a brand new disk and an old disk and they both didn't work. Then, when I put in my Windows 95 Japenese Edition (I don't want to use this, I want the English Edition) into the drive and booted it up. This worked. I don't know what this means because I'm not that into computers, so I would like to know what this means. My last thing to try is to use dial-up to connect and download the drivers, but I already have Comcast High speed internet, and it would take a while to download it.

Thanks!

ComputerFreak

 

[ski]

Are you saying that the floppy drive works ok in DOS, but it does not work in Windows?

And what is the meaning of "It only has a floppie drive and not a floppy drive."?

 

[BionicJohn]

Hi, ComputerFreak

> > Gateway 2000 Colorbook

Yes, it is old (1993?) and IIRC they were all 486s with not much RAM, and only had 3½" floppy disk drive, I don't think CD-ROMs were standard.

> > It is running Windows 95.

It is? Trying to install WinJ over Win Western doesn't sound a good idea to me.

Iechyd da! John
01:13 20/11/2003 GMT