I'm having problem accessing my A drive. My floppy drive is not spoilt as it can still read my Win98SE boot disk and neither are my diskette as I've tried reading them on anothe PC. I previously had a problem "While initialising device IOS: Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer" as I was told that my AMD K6-450 doesn't support Win95B. And so I've formatted my harddisk and install Win98SE. I now can load into Win98SE, but the problem is I can't access my A drive. As I suspect that it might be the IOS problem, I've tried changing the booting method to C->CDROM->A, but the problem still arise. I've also tried using the AMD patch from microsoft but it can't work on Win98SE. How can I solve the problem so that I can access to my A drive? Please help.

The cable isnt plugged backwards is it? Pin 1 to Pin 1? That will cause it to not read for sure. You're sure that the drive just didn't go bad?? That's happened to me before too, used it 5 minutes ago, plug it into another machine and it no longer reads... Perhaps someone else has some better ideas.. Blessings

Kok Min Changing the boot method should have nothing to do with whether the A drive will read a floppy. Changing the drives will just tell the system to first look at the "A" drive for boot sequence commands, then if it does not find it there it will tell it to go to the next one you put in which is usually "C". "A" then "C" is usually the way they are set up. This way if anything ever happens to your "C" drive it will boot from the "A" drive with the proper bootup disk in "A". meantime, since according to what you have said you seem to have gone into your BIOS setup and now the "A" drive does not work are you absolutely sure you did not disable your "A" drive in error when changing the booth sequence drives. go to your BIOS and make sure that the A drive is enabled still. I have done this in error before also.