Floppy help ...

[boris333]

i got a 500 mhz motherboard and now when i turn it on and connect a floppy to it it says " Floppy disk(s) fail (CO) " now what is (CO) how can i fix this ?

[Netlist]

This 'might' help:
http://www.techadvice.com/w98/errors/2/er_00147.htm
Homepage:
http://www.techadvice.com

/Hugo

[boris333]

i m still getting that " Floppy disk(s) fail (CO) " ... any other things that i can do ? and how can i boot from drive C ? i wont to install win98 .. so how can i boot from it ? i have win98 on drive C .. and if i set in bios to boot from drive C it dose not wont to boot from C ?

[boris333]

can someone help me ?

[dhaen]

To boot from drive C the operating system's partition must be "active", include sys files and have a master boot record.
Probably you will need to get the floppy working so you can use it to write some of these.

Did you fit a few floppy drive? Sometimes when I've fitted a new one it doesn't work with the old cable, and that has to be changed as well - I don't know why.

Once you have the floppy working you can use a boot disk to add the sys files:
sys C:
And to write the master boot record:
Format C: /mbr

I'm not a computer professional, so If I've made any mistakes; please correct me.

[OliverD]

And to write the master boot record:
Format C: /mbr

I think it was "fdisk c: /mbr", wasn't it? It's been a long time since I last used DOS / Windows, though.

[sss]

u gotta have bootable cd rom with win98
anyways , why do u need the floppy drive?

[analog_sa]

Grrr. Got tricked into reading this pathetic thread for the second time. Talk about misleading subject lines...
Thought it was an update on Viagra and even wondered why is it not under 'solid state'.

[dhaen]

Originally posted by OliverD


I think it was "fdisk c: /mbr", wasn't it? It's been a long time since I last used DOS / Windows, though.

Thank you for the correction

I'm spending my time trying to forget what little I learned about PC's....looks like I'm having some success

[kelticwizard]

Boris:

Just to keep things straight, so we are all on the same page.

Drive A is normally your Floppy Drive.

Drive C is normally your hard drive

Drive D is normally your CD rom drive, Drive E is a second CD rom or DVD rom drive, etc.

If you say you have Win 98 installed on Drive C, we normally interpret that to mean that you have Win 98 installed on your hard drive.

If Windows 98 is installed on your hard drive, it should boot up, especially if you have your BIOS set to boot up from drive C.

If Windows 98 is installed on your hard drive, (Drive C), and it won't boot up, it might not be such a bad idea to put a Windows 98 CD in the CD rom drive, (Drive D), and set your BIOS to boot up from Drive D first.

Then tell us what happened.