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George wrote:
> Well, if I can't get the floppy to work, then doing a reinstall won't work,
> I need a floppy for the reinstall.
Unless you're running windows 3.1 or a floppy install of win95 you would do
an 'upgrade', not a fresh install, from the CD anyway (meaning invoking it
with windows running). And even if doing a fresh install the CD should be
bootable.
On all newer versions of windows the boot floppy is there for only if you
have an older system that won't boot from the CD drive.
As a tip: on NT4/Win2K/XP, if you copy the \i386 folder from the CD to the
hard drive you can not only do the upgrade from the hard drive (run winnt32
in the i386 folder) but it will go a lot faster and you will not need to
keep the CD handy when installing/removing features/drivers as the install
files will be on the hard drive. Same thing with win95/98 if you copy the
win95/win98 folder to the hard drive (setup from the win95/win98 folder).
In win98 systems check the \windows\options\cabs folder before making a new
\win98 because some OEM versions automatically copy the setup CAB files
there and you wouldn't need a second copy.
> T Shadow <knone@zilch.com.invalid> wrote in message
> news:YkXTc.17945$Nl1.14887@fe1.columbus.rr.com...
>
>>"George" <staylor9@twcny.rr.com> wrote in message
>>news:iGLTc.145674$bp1.100119@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
>>
>>>It's configured ok. Sometimes it would work other times it would not.
>
> Now,
>
>>>it's not working at all.
>>>Any other ideas. I'm getting ready to just junk the thing.
>>>thanks,
>>>George
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>David Maynard <dNOTmayn@ev1.net> wrote in message
>>>news:10hupt8mbdnena0@corp.supernews.com...
>>>
>>>>George wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>JAD,
>>>>>Wouldn't I get other error messages if the batter failed. All I'm
>>>
>>>getting it
>>>
>>>>>the floppy error and the floppy won't work.
>>>>
>>>>Possibly but it's easy enough to find out. Simply go into BIOS and see
>>
>>if
>>
>>>>it's configured for the right kind of floppy.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>JAD <Kapasitor@coldmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>>news:10hu5ied9634m91@corp.supernews.com...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>your cmos battery failed and now the floppy is not described
>
> properly
>
>>>>>>in bios?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>"George" <staylor9@twcny.rr.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>news:%cyTc.27032$Kt5.21744@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>this started after watching a dvd, it seems for some reason, don't
>>>>>>
>>>>>>know why,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>but the movie would not finish, system froze, had to reboot several
>>>>>>
>>>>>>times,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>then, I started getting this message, floppy disk error (40). up
>>>>>>
>>>>>>until this,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>no problems with the floppy.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>i've tried several different floppies, different cables, put them
>
> in
>
>>>>>>>backwards, forwards, upside down, different this, different that,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>but to no
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>avail.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>can anyone tell me what the hell went
>
> wrong......................and
>
>>>>>>how do
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I correct it. i can NOT get rid of this error.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>thanks
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>I had this problem about a month ago on my older computer. Did a Google
>>search on the problem and found theirs a system file that can get
>
> corrupted.
>
>>Can't remember the name of the file and was unable to get it without
>>searching. Since I was ready to reinstall the O/S anyway, thats what I
>
> did.
>
>>After the reinstall the floppy was operational again.
>>
>>HTH..............happy Googling.
>>
>>
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>
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