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[shaun]

sorry i am posting again but i cant work out without this
i cannot boot from my floppy or cd drive even though i
change the boot order and both my discs work good.tried
installing new windows xp still didnt work out.
any ideas???????????

 

[JRV]

Did you check for an option in the BIOS to enable the
Secondary controllerand to detect the proper IDe device(s)?
Do you have the correct drivers?? Here is a link for the
floppy:

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/ARTICLES/Q131/6/90.asp&NoWebContent=1

If you need more help then let us know what kind of drives
you have. without that info we cant help that much.

JRV

 

[RoyL]

Try using a W98 Startup Disk or a WME Startup disk

 

[Malke]

Try using a W98 Startup Disk or a WME Startup disk

And I'm answering you *again*: post back with details of *exactly* what
is happening with your computer, *exactly* what you are doing, and what
the error messages are if you get any. And just for good measure,
here's my guess *again*: hardware failure(s). Without more information
from you, specific answers are impossible because we're not at your
house looking at your machine.

Malke

 

[shaun]

ok this is what is happening with my computer
i have a local image on one of my partitions.i am trying
to download that image on my c: partition which is where
my windows xp is installed.i do it boz i want a clean
machnine and hence using a command which is with me in my
floppy i try to download that image(image of xp) .now my
problem is my computer is not detecting my floppy to boot
from it.but when i get into my operating system it work s
and i can see the stuff in my floppy.when i boot from the
flopppy i can c the light glowing but cant see an A:
prompt.is it anything with hardware if so what do i need
to do.
Thanks

 

[Malke]

ok this is what is happening with my computer
i have a local image on one of my partitions.i am trying
to download that image on my c: partition which is where
my windows xp is installed.i do it boz i want a clean
machnine and hence using a command which is with me in my
floppy i try to download that image(image of xp) .now my
problem is my computer is not detecting my floppy to boot
from it.but when i get into my operating system it work s
and i can see the stuff in my floppy.when i boot from the
flopppy i can c the light glowing but cant see an A:
prompt.is it anything with hardware if so what do i need
to do.
Thanks

OK, so what you've got is a Ghost (or the like) image on a partition
which you want to restore. Couple more questions: 1) Are you sure
you've set up the machine to boot from floppy? Check in the BIOS to be
sure. 2) Does this particular floppy *disk* work in another machine?
Check with a friend to be sure. 3) If the answers to 1 & 2 are "yes",
then try attaching a different floppy *drive* to your machine and see
if it will boot now. After you've done these things, post back for more
help.

Malke

 

[shaun]

I do have the machine to boot from the Floppy drive
i put the boot as 1.floppy ,2.cd, 3. hardisk , again
1.floppy 2.hardisk, 3. cd. another thing is i cant even
boot from the CD too even though i change the boot order
to CD first,i am using WindowsXP Pro.i tested my floppy
on a different machine and i t works.none of the floppys
boot from my floppy dirve, i treid with different
floppies but of no use.one more thing when i boot from
floppy the floppy drive light will be glowing but u cant
c any thing on the screen except for black screen.
Hope this info will help me ,

 

[Malke]

I do have the machine to boot from the Floppy drive
i put the boot as 1.floppy ,2.cd, 3. hardisk , again
1.floppy 2.hardisk, 3. cd. another thing is i cant even
boot from the CD too even though i change the boot order
to CD first,i am using WindowsXP Pro.i tested my floppy
on a different machine and i t works.none of the floppys
boot from my floppy dirve, i treid with different
floppies but of no use.one more thing when i boot from
floppy the floppy drive light will be glowing but u cant
c any thing on the screen except for black screen.
Hope this info will help me ,

OK, it doesn't look good. What it sounds like to me - not having seen
your machine or done any tests on it, but just doing the Usenet
Guesstimate - is that your motherboard is sick or dead and that the
controllers aren't working. You've established that the problem isn't
with the floppy disk and also that the problem isn't only with the
floppy drive. What's left but the motherboard itself? Time for some
major hardware diagnosis. I would use a combination of software like
TuffTest, Memtest (don't want to forget to test the RAM), swapping out
parts, putting your hard drive in a different machine, attaching
different cd-rom and floppy drives, that sort of thing. If this is
something you can do yourself, then start with the motherboard testing.
If not, take the box to a good local computer repair shop (not a
BestBuy/CompUSA type store) for thorough testing. Good luck.

Malke

 

[shaun]

thanx i would do taht

-----Original Message-----


OK, it doesn't look good. What it sounds like to me - not having seen
your machine or done any tests on it, but just doing the Usenet
Guesstimate - is that your motherboard is sick or dead and that the
controllers aren't working. You've established that the problem isn't
with the floppy disk and also that the problem isn't only with the
floppy drive. What's left but the motherboard itself? Time for some
major hardware diagnosis. I would use a combination of software like
TuffTest, Memtest (don't want to forget to test the RAM), swapping out
parts, putting your hard drive in a different machine, attaching
different cd-rom and floppy drives, that sort of thing. If this is
something you can do yourself, then start with the motherboard testing.
If not, take the box to a good local computer repair shop (not a
BestBuy/CompUSA type store) for thorough testing. Good luck.

Malke
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