-=PCTechTalk=- Re: cd rom support
- From: "David J. Weaver" <weaverdj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 16:44:41 -0500
if You boot from a Windows floppy Startup disk you should be able to enable
Cd-Rom support during the bootup phase.
Once it gets you to the A:\> just type FORMAT C:
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
ArmChairPaintClasses/Madeleine Jacobs
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 10:47 AM
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- cd rom support
Now you like the Wyoming winters? LOL
Hmmm.... seems to me you were teasing a bit :)
Ok, ready to do the deed. I just boot up in DOS, type FORMAT C at the C
prompt and go from there? Now, how can cd rom support be enabled? This would
have to be AFTER rebooting right? Sorry about the ignorance but ...sigh...I
have to start somewhere.
Mad
>
> Anyway yes the boot disk should work. the command would be FORMAT C:
>
> Make sure that you can enable CD-ROM support and that you can read from
the
> CD.
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> ArmChairPaintClasses/Madeleine Jacobs
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 9:38 AM
> To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- format and boot disk
>
>
>
> I thought I'd wait until after your wife's birthday was past. HOpe you
both
> had a great time!
>
> I am wondering...I have an older computer in town at a second hand store
for
> sale. If I get a
> boot disk from it (It also is running Win98SE), I should be able to use
that
> on the one I"m
> having problems with, correct? Now all I have to do is wipe the computer
> clean and use the
> boot disk, then the Win98SE startup disk etc. But how do I wipe everything
> out first if the
> computer will not let me? I mean, I go into DOS and try c:\format but it
> won't let me do that.
> What is the next step?
>
> 70 degrees here today....no snow to speak of. What is SD in the winter
> coming to? LOL
>
> Madeleine
>
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