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re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?'
Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 9:45 am
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Posted by Calvin (1 messages posted)


I need help in getting to bios to change which drive boots up first. Can anyone help. Thanks


On Saturday, August 20, 2005 at 5:14 am, Marty C wrote:
>Have you tried to boot into Safe Mode? I wonder if your floppy drive is working?
> What happens when you try a boot disk? Do you have an old DOS boot disk that you
>could try? It is unusual that you get to the splash screen but cannot boot from
>a floppy. Can you get to the BIOS setup screen? Perhaps your computer is set to
>boot from the hard disk first. If that is the case, change that setting so that
>the floppy is the first item in the boot list.
>By the way, when you say that you can get to the splash screen, I am assuming that
>you mean the large color Windows logo; am I correct?
>
>


Written in response to:
re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (Marty C: Saturday, August 20, 2005 at 5:14 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (gewg_: Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 11:07 am)
*re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (rodney: Sunday, October 9, 2005 at 9:35 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (Curtis: Mon, Jun 9, 2003, 11:34 am)
-re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (Marty C: Mon, Jun 9, 2003, 12:35 pm)
-re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (Curtis: Mon, Jun 9, 2003, 2:01 pm)
-re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (Marty C: Mon, Jun 9, 2003, 2:29 pm)
-re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (Curtis: Tue, Jun 10, 2003, 6:12 am)
-re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (Marty C: Tue, Jun 10, 2003, 9:28 am)
-re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (Jackson: Fri, Aug 19, 2005, 4:57 pm)
-re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (Marty C: Sat, Aug 20, 2005, 5:14 am)
-re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (Calvin: Sun, Sep 25, 2005, 9:45 am)
-re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (gewg_: Sun, Sep 25, 2005, 11:07 am)
*re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (Marty C: Sun, Sep 25, 2005, 6:01 pm)
*re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (rodney: Sun, Oct 9, 2005, 9:35 am)
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