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From: wgoveia@indiana.edu (Bill Goveia)
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Subject: Re: Challenge for the BIG know-hows { HELP!! }
Date: 31 May 1995 13:08:56 GMT
Organization: Indiana University School of Law--Bloomington
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In article <D9Fp6L.Eoq.0.-s@cs.vu.nl>, rjscheer@cs.vu.nl says...
>
>Peter_Leftwich (swtpete@cloud9.net) wrote:
>: also a 144k [1.4M] DS/HD A: Disk Drive (*not* functional). The story?
>
>Try to run the Setup, by pressing Del after the 6144KB OK
>or maybe Ctrl-Alt-Esc, and change the bootup sequence from
>"A: C:" to "C:" or "C: A:"
>Your system will then boot directly from C: (of course only
>if it's bootable) and then you can use progs like Norton or
>PCTools to get your floppy drive working. Maybe you need some
>BIOS setup program.
>Hope this helps....
>
That assumes of course, that the drive has been defined in CMOS. For older AMI BIOS, try pressing <del> during boot. for
newer AMI BIOS, try pressing escape. For Award and Pheonix BIOS, try CTRL ALT ESC or CTRL ALT S.
There will be something in the BIOS/CMOS setup referring to Floppy Disk 0 or Floppy Disk A:. Navigate to that feild, and
select 1.44 3.5" (usually done by pressing Page Down or Tab.
Norton and PCTools won't do anything if the drive hasn't been defined in CMOS.
Hope that helps...
--
Bill Goveia