Hi, Ibrahim, Will do. Thanks. Kind Regards, Ted. ------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ibrahim, Mustafa" <Mustafa.Ibrahim@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <mswindowsxp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 2:48 AM Subject: [mswindowsxp] Re: Creating a Bootable Floppy. > Ted, > > Kind of a long shot, but give one of the Spyware applications a try. AdAware is a good one. > > Also see if there is any updated drivers for your Floppy controller or BIOS from vendor's website, but be sure to back up of course. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ted Cotton [mailto:tabcot@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 16 September 2004 02:27 > To: mswindowsxp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [mswindowsxp] Re: Creating a Bootable Floppy. > > > Hi, Mustafa. > > > You might be able to confirm this by borrowing a bootable floppy from a > friend or someone else and trying to boot off > that disk. > > I have several bootable floppies and I can boot off them all. > > > > You might also want to check BIOS setup for floppy disk. > > That is all correct. > > I can perform a regular format okay. > > Another problem: When I R/Click my Removable HDD (Samsung SPO411N ) and > select Format, Windows says it can't do it because it's being used. I have > System Restore turned off on this drive and Norton Protected files is empty. > I can only format the drive by using the Disk Management option. This works > okay, but although DiskCheck and Norton Disk Doctor say the drive is okay, > Norton Ghost won't recognise it as a valid drive. Partition Magic says the > disk is bad and comes up with error number 4 when it tries to format it. I > wanted to create a booable floppy so I could use zap on it. > > Kind Regards, > > Ted. > ---- > > > > > > > > > > ================================== > To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation > mode or view archives use the below link. > > http://thethin.net/winxplist.cfm > > > > > > > ================================== > To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation > mode or view archives use the below link. > > http://thethin.net/winxplist.cfm > ================================== To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/winxplist.cfm