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re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?'
Saturday, December 15, 2001 at 12:49 pm
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Posted by Steve N (1 messages posted)


Your BIOS may be set to look at your CD drive first when booting up and not to your floppy drive. You go into setup as your computer is starting up. You need to know what you are doing if you make changes or you might make them worse. Get help


On Saturday, December 15, 2001 at 10:04 am, Scott Dinwiddie wrote:
>I have a question about Why
>can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?
:


>My system has failed me. Evertime I try to startup I get a message that says " Windows
>protection error, Must restart computer" restart and I get the same message. I cannot
>get it to startup with the start up diskeyy either. any suggestions? your help is
>greatly appreciated.
>


Written in response to:
Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (Scott Dinwiddie : Saturday, December 15, 2001 at 10:04 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (James M. O'Shea : Saturday, December 15, 2001 at 1:57 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (Scott Dinwiddie : Sat, Dec 15, 2001, 10:04 am)
-re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (Steve N: Sat, Dec 15, 2001, 12:49 pm)
-re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (James M. O'Shea : Sat, Dec 15, 2001, 1:57 pm)
*re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (kiril Pechenyashki: Wed, Jun 29, 2005, 12:15 am)
*re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (John Patrick Curran: Thu, Sep 5, 2002, 3:13 pm)
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