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Re: Disk Drive in Win'95

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From: Michael Love
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 00:00
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In article <4e7cmt$nl7@news-f.iadfw.net>, jaysonb@airmail.net writes
>konnyu@idirect.com (Kevin J. Konnyu) wrote:
>
>>Ok... I've installed Win '95... but the 3.5" disk drive ain't working.  It 
>>works in dos mode and safe mode but as soon as I try to do a major disk 
>>copy or disk installation through 95 it crashes and gives me errors in 
>>things such as the krnl386.exe file and illigal operation errors... I was 
>>thinking it was the bios since the controller (a VESA enhanced IDE) works 
>>fine and the disk drive works fine.  Any ideas?
>
>just a little help, that may work for you...go into the device
>manager, and create a new hardware profile,{just to protect
>yourself}...then delete the floppy drive off of that profile, reboot
>the computer off of that profile, and windows should redetect the
>floppy drive, and install new drivers for ya, and everything should
>work as promised...
>
>jayson
>
>

Could I do the same for A SCSI CD drive & card that win95 cannot see at
all, but needs it's own drivers and MSCDEX to work?

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From: Michael Love <miklove@miklove.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Disk Drive in Win'95
Date: 1996/02/02
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