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A Drive failure
Name: Donna Date: January 24, 2002 at 18:21:50 Pacific
Comment:
When I click on drive A in DOS it says General Failure Reading Drive A, Current drive is no longer valid and when I click on drive A in windows for workgroups 3.11 it says there is no disk in Drive A even when there is one. Also my MSD says windows 3.1 not active. What can I do? Thanks. would appreciate any help.
Name: Soedesh Date: January 24, 2002 at 18:40:47 Pacific
Reply:
You probably need to adjust the settings in your Bios for the floppy drive. Its normal that MSD reports windows 3.1 is not active because you're in DOS then....
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Response Number 2
Name: joycecurl Date: January 24, 2002 at 20:58:21 Pacific
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Don't know how to get into the BIOS.
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Response Number 3
Name: Soedesh Date: January 28, 2002 at 19:31:39 Pacific
Reply:
Uhh try pressing the Del key or the Escape while booting. If that doesn't work F1 might do the trick....
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