The message you're getting indicates a problem with the power or data cable to the drive, bad drive, misidentified drive or floppy controller not enabled.

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thanks for the help still didnt get it still didnt get it to work i can view the files on my labtop and the bootup disk will boot on labtop just not on my dell. Thing is my othe rharddrive had windows xp on it and david i cant bring up the dos promt at all thats what am trying to do so i can run fdisk ect.. but just keeps trying to load the messed up windows xp. I guesss i can try windows xp bootupdisk and check the cables see if that helps at all.

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Ok think i found my problem think my floppydrive is burned out or broke cuz getting no power tried newer cambles and everything. Ok i can use my old old computer to do this its Compaq deskpro that one has working floppydisk but i cant get into the bios in that to make it boot from floppy first does any one know how am typing F10 F1 F2 F3 F4 F8 F9 ect at compaq splash screen. The floppy drive in compaq wont fit into my dell so ill just do this on meh old compaq if i can get into bios.

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Hi vayin, GRP, ddp59, DAVINCAPS, hello everyone, GRP, A WinXp bootdisk will be of no help regarless of the type of partition on the hard drive. One should be able to boot from the floppy without a hard drive installed. If the floppy isn't booting using a known good Win98 bootdisk it won't boot a WinXp bootdisk either. DAVINCAPS, I agree with the data or power cable not connected properly. I just checked out the BIOS settings on this Dell and sure enough no option to enable or disable the FDC. vayin, Check the BIOS again very closely to enable the FDC. What do the light on the floppy drive do when trying to boot from it? Stay lit all of the time, flicker, or nothing at all? Best Regards, Mesich

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Hi vayin, hello everyone, Looks like we were posting at the same time. It should be F10 for older Compaq's and F1 for newer models. If the Compaq BIOS software is not loaded on some older Compaq's you cannot access the BIOS. Best Regards, Mesich

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Hi vayin, hello everyone How about trying to boot from the Win98SE CD? Some are bootable and others are not. Worth a shot though. Best Regards, Mesich

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Hi vayin, hello everyone, What is the model number of the Compaq Deskpro? Best Regards, Mesich

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ok this is what i did i took out hardrive and just hooked up floppy drive enabled the controller and still didnt work not getting any power guess its broke. Well m compaq did the same thing and windows 98 bootdisk boots up fine. When hook up the hardrive and reboot trys to load c: and F10 and F1 wont bring up the bios is there any way i can download the bios for compaq and install it with floppy or cd rom if so where can i get it

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oh yeah the compaq is Deskpro model number 270638-001

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Hi vayin, hello everyone I believe that is the serial number. The model number will be something like; 6240, 5166 or similar. Best Regards, Mesich

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hmm, i have no clue where the model number is there is like 14 diffrent numbers on it here is some 15051 268056-001 166558-001 243036-001 qc16 47095 m126709 6737BNL2T207 ps2014 47085

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Hi vayin, Those all appear to be Compaq part numbers. I believe it's a Deskpro 2000 but I'm not 100% sure. I don't want to send you to the wrong download without knowing for sure. You could slave the drive from the Dell in the Compaq computer. You could then format the drive using the /s switch making it a bootable device. Then copy the Win98 directory from the Win98 CD to the hard drive. First we need to know if it is FAT32 or NTFS. Take the hard drive out of the Dell and slave it in the Compaq. Start the computer and after Windows loads, go open My Computer. Right click on the slaved drive and select properties. Look next to File System: Does this show FAT32 or NTFS? Best Regards, Mesich

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mesich, I already explained this i cant get into windows xp and and i cant go to my computer just doesnt load up past the logo and when it does get kernal errors needs reformated.. but i dont have windows xp cd. But the floppy on my dell is broke so i took the put hardrive on to my compaq and it keeps booting from c: Trying to load operating system. And i cant enter the compaq bios to make it start from disk first. The floppy drive in compaq wont fit into my dell its to big.. all i need to know really is how to get the compaq to boot the bios up tried F10 F1 ect.. or where can i download it at.

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Hi vayin, Here is the download which might work or may very well cause more problems. Again I am not certain of the model number of your Compaq so no guarantee's. I have done the above procedure many times when a computer doesn't have a floppy drive or the floppy drive is bad. It will work. You are not installing the hard drive as a Master into the Compaq. Set the Compaq up to boot from it's normal hard drive. Connect the hard drive that will not boot as a Slave. Format the Slaved drive using format X: /s. Copy the Win98 folder from the CD to the Slaved drive. Turn off the computer and remove the slaved drive and put it back into the Dell. Start the computer and you will be at a C:\> prompt. Type cd win98. At C:\Win98\> type setup. Windows will now start to load. Best Regards, Mesich

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The floppy drive in the compaq should have the same physical dimensions as the one in the Dell. It may be mounted on a bracket but all the ones I've seen in compaqs and dells were regular 3 1/2" drives. Even if you have a problem mounting the compaq floppy in the dell you could just connect the data and power cable to the drive and leave it loose temporarily long enough to do the windows installation. But if the main problem is the Dell floppy drive it'd probably be easier to just get another drive.

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Hi, Well finally got it working becuase of mesich but there is another problem when i type format c: Says "Format C: is not supported" Detects hardrive floppy drive cd rom drive and everything but when i /fdisk it says "no fixed disk present" Then it says i half to create a ms-dos partition cuase the disk is in ntfs. Any pointers on how to fix this ?

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option 3 is delete partition & select non-dos partition. delete that than select option 1 to make partition primary & active david

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It doesn't sound like you've got it working if you're getting those messages. If fdisk says 'no fixed disks present' the ramdrive created by the bootdisk chooses c: as its drive letter. When you try 'format c:' you get 'format not support on drive c:' because you can't format a ramdrive. You need to verify the drive jumpers and cabling are correct. Also make sure it's properly identified in cmos and the HD channel its connected to is enabled. It might help if you listed the steps you took up to getting the message. You don't even say which computer you have the drive installed in when getting the errors.

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DAVEINCAPS, did this on my old compaq like i said before i cant get into bios. tried F1 F10 ect. Everything is working perfect just wont let me format that drive that had windows xp on it.. But when i hook up my windows 98 hardrive back in it loads right right all cables are correct. Cd rom Floopy hardrive works.. Just not the one with win xp on it.

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Obviously the compaq isn't seeing the drive. That could be because it's expecting the old drive's configuration or it could be because the drive from the Dell is too large to be seen by the compaq. How large is the drive? If F10 doesn't work on the compaq you can download the diagnostic/setup disk from the compaq site for your model. Running that file will create a floppy bootdisk that will give you access to the compaq bios setup. I still think the best thing to do is to replace the floppy drive in the Dell. Even if you copy the necessary files to the Dell HD, do you really want a computer with no functional floppy drive?

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