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re: can not recognize c drive and win 95 won't boot
Monday, August 1, 2005 at 12:48 am
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Posted by phil (5 messages posted)


i can not access c: drive at all once i get to a: from the boot up. how do you check the bios setting? is my c drive dead? any freeware that will solve this issue?


On Sunday, July 31, 2005 at 9:39 pm, Malcolm Fowler wrote:
>you should be able to boot he computer from your A drive using the boot floppy (that's
>what it's for!). You will need to make sure that the boot sequence in your BIOS is
>set to boot from drive A:\. Once you get it booted you should see an A:\> cursor
>at this you can type cd c:\ and then c: - this should bring up the c:\> cursor if
>the drive C: is readable. You could then try dir which would list the driectories
>on C: or you try typing win which may fire up Windows if it is present. If C:\ drive
>appears not to be ready or present then you will need to check that BIOS is detecting
>it and has the correct parameters.. Repost with your observations...
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Written in response to:
re: can not recognize c drive and win 95 won't boot (Malcolm Fowler: Sunday, July 31, 2005 at 9:39 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: can not recognize c drive and win 95 won't boot (Malcolm Fowler: Monday, August 1, 2005 at 1:00 am)
*re: can not recognize c drive and win 95 won't boot (Chris: Monday, August 1, 2005 at 1:49 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-can not recognize c drive and win 95 won't boot (phil: Sun, Jul 31, 2005, 9:16 pm)
-re: can not recognize c drive and win 95 won't boot (Malcolm Fowler: Sun, Jul 31, 2005, 9:39 pm)
-re: can not recognize c drive and win 95 won't boot (phil: Mon, Aug 1, 2005, 12:48 am)
-re: can not recognize c drive and win 95 won't boot (Malcolm Fowler: Mon, Aug 1, 2005, 1:00 am)
*re: can not recognize c drive and win 95 won't boot (phil: Mon, Aug 1, 2005, 9:49 am)
-re: can not recognize c drive and win 95 won't boot (phil: Tue, Aug 2, 2005, 10:07 am)
-re: can not recognize c drive and win 95 won't boot (Malcolm Fowler: Tue, Aug 2, 2005, 4:09 pm)
*re: can not recognize c drive and win 95 won't boot (phil: Thu, Aug 4, 2005, 9:36 pm)
*re: can not recognize c drive and win 95 won't boot (Chris: Mon, Aug 1, 2005, 1:49 am)
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