My son decided to get creative with his machine. He wanted to reformat his hard drive and reinstall Win98.
He made a Win98 boot disk from the add/remove software applet, using the startup tab so that he could use his CDROM.
However, the computer would not recognize the floppy in the A Drive and merrily went on to boot his computer in the normal manner.
He then decided to exit to MS DOS where he went to the A-Drive and typed in Format C:...the C: drive formatted fine apparently.
He then rebooted his machine, now the machine just hangs when it encounters the A Drive...it doesn't go any further. I think because it is looking for info on the A drive and cannot find any.
How can we get his computer to recognize that there is a boot disk in the floppy??
Jim Broadbent
The quality of the answer is directly proportional to the quality of the problem statement!
He made a Win98 boot disk from the add/remove software applet, using the startup tab so that he could use his CDROM.
However, the computer would not recognize the floppy in the A Drive and merrily went on to boot his computer in the normal manner.
He then decided to exit to MS DOS where he went to the A-Drive and typed in Format C:...the C: drive formatted fine apparently.
He then rebooted his machine, now the machine just hangs when it encounters the A Drive...it doesn't go any further. I think because it is looking for info on the A drive and cannot find any.
How can we get his computer to recognize that there is a boot disk in the floppy??
Jim Broadbent
The quality of the answer is directly proportional to the quality of the problem statement!