1. Re: Win98 installation issues FOR KAT
- Posted by gertie at visionsix.com
Feb 14, 2003
On 13 Feb 2003, at 20:09, Bernie Ryan wrote:
>
>
> >I've got them home, sat down at two puters (one with a new floppy drive),
> put
> >a *new* floppy in each, written a file to each with write-verify, no errors
> >reported, and (without touching either disc) *immeadiately* couldn't read it
> >back off either one. I've been able to use one floppy if i install a new
> drive,
> >and then it's caput for that drive and that floppy. All the Zip drives are
> fine,
> >and useable for years so far.
>
> Kat that sounds like a old-time viruis that is passed back and
> forth with your floppy. Go to this site and scan your system
> on-line ( It's Free ) This will enable you to check all your
> drives and system without having to insert a floppy that can
> provagate the problem.
>
> http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_corp.asp
Thanks, Bernie. Problem is, Housecall won't run on my puters. Course,
neither will those floppies, but i seldom have a file as small as 1.44meg that i
wanna save. One day of data mining is over that size. But i don't have any
boot discs, either. The flip side is the puter is otherwise quite stable, i
rebooted today (by choice, it was stable, but Pegasus was flaking out!) after
23 days running 24-7 online, and i do have several bootable harddrives. It's
been years since i last used a floppy, and that was to install upgrades of the
zip drive software from dos/win3.11 to win95 editions. Last two puters i built
have no floppy drive, but do have ide zips.
Kat
