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No CD-ROMs when booting from floppy
Name: Sidewinder Date: November 23, 2003 at 23:21:38 Pacific OS: Win XP Pro CPU/Ram: P4 2.8GHz (800FSB)
Comment:
I want to format my HDD but I experience one problem: I boot from a Win Me startup disk with CD-ROM support but the driver cannot find any drives in my computer! It’s really strange because the last time I boot with the same disk in the same computer everything was normal! I tried with a friend’s disk but same problem. Is it because I updated BIOS?
Name: Bil Date: November 24, 2003 at 05:42:32 Pacific
Reply:
What did you change in youur bios? Try a new boot disk , if you dont have one go to www.bootdisk.com and if it still does it try to Undo your power and go to your mobo and clear the cmos then reboot and try again
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Response Number 2
Name: sam Date: November 24, 2003 at 10:16:30 Pacific
Reply:
It's because you are using NTFS. The WinME and Win9X floppies cannot handle NTFS drives. Boot from the WinXK CD and select a new install. The install will format the drive before installing.
To just format, you can download and run DelPart. It will remove the NTFS partition. If you want to partition as Fat32, use fdisk. You can then format as Fat32.
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Summary: Interesting. I have the same motherboard and the exact same problem. You're farther along than I am; I haven't tried to boot from CD yet. I think the reason it appears to not accept your changes to BI...
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