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Re: Disk Drive in Win'95

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From: Larry Richards
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 00:00
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Michael Love <miklove@miklove.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>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?

>---------------------------------------------
>If life's like a box of chocolates, 
>how come I never get to eat the one's I want!

>Mik Love  (It's my name, honest)!

I have a SCSI CD and removed the drivers and MSCDEX from CONFIG.SYS  &
AUTOEXEC.BAT. It found it OK. So it sounds logical that it should work for
you...

Oops, there I go again, associating logic with computers...

	Larry

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From: larryric@ix.netcom.com (Larry Richards)
Subject: Re: Disk Drive in Win'95
Date: 1996/07/25
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