booting vista from floppy.....help

[Mark Ryan]

my western digital sata hard drive clicks now and again, there is an update
i have downloaded to rectify this problem from western digital which boots
from a floppy, i have tried to run it on my laptop but it wont run, it just
keeps saying remove discs and press any button to retry. any ideas would be
great. seems as vista does not like booting from floppys. would i need to
boot with a another version of windows startup disc then swap discs at the
dos prompt??
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[Michael Solomon]

my western digital sata hard drive clicks now and again, there is an
update i have downloaded to rectify this problem from western digital
which boots from a floppy, i have tried to run it on my laptop but it
wont run, it just keeps saying remove discs and press any button to
retry. any ideas would be great. seems as vista does not like
booting from floppys. would i need to boot with a another version of
windows startup disc then swap discs at the dos prompt??
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This sounds as though you've loaded the patch onto the floopy but you
haven't made a proper boot disk. This process is usually included as a part
of the tool WD provides. I would start by rechecking the WD site to make
sure you fully followed their instructions. If they just say place on
floppy and boot, you can format a floppy disk in Windows Explorer to make a
bootable floppy disk. Then, I would guess, WD's insturctions would be to
navigate to the file and double click the file.

 

[Mark Ryan]

the link i followed is below, i did unzip it as suggested and still did not
work
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc...2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9Y2xpY2tpbmc*&p_li=&p_topview=1

 

[Michael Solomon]

the link i followed is below, i did unzip it as suggested and still
did not work
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc...2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9Y2xpY2tpbmc*&p_li=&p_topview=1

It said to unzip the files and copy them to a formatted floppy disk and
personally, I would have formatted the disk to make it bootable. It also
reminds you might need to enter the system BIOS, there's instructions on the
first boot screen to hit a specified key to enter setup, in order to change
the boot order placing the floppy drive first in line, did you do that as
well?

 

[Mark Ryan]

tried with both formatted startup and non startup disc but still no joy
regards Mark

 

[Michael Solomon]

tried with both formatted startup and non startup disc but still no
joy regards Mark

Did you change the boot sequence?

 

[Mark Ryan]

yes, eventually got it running using a win98 startup disc, but did not solve
the problem, said i had the latest firmware on the harddrive and could not
update....never mind still clicking
reagrds Mark

 

[Shane Nokes]

If it's clicking then it's a bad drive.

Sounds like warped heads to me.

I'd have it replaced.