re: Please help delete Floppy Drive! Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 4:07 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gtea (1 messages posted) Thanks Ed. I'm glad you're response is recent (2009) to an old computer software program (1993) I still use. I'm going to try the subst dos command and see if my external usb drive (E:\) is recognized by my laptop instead of my broken floppy drive (A:\). On Sunday, May 24, 2009 at 9:56 am, Ed wrote: >1. In Windows 98, open notepad and edit the file C:\CONFIG.SYS by adding the following >lines - > >rem ASPI Manager for USB mass-storage v2.24 >rem Panasonic Communications Co 2000-2007 >devicehigh=USBASPI.SYS /o /e /v > >rem DI1000DD ASPI Disk Driver v2.00 >rem (c) 2001 NOVAC Co Ltd >devicehigh=DI1000DD.SYS > >Download those files to your C: root folder from http://www.stefan2000.com/darkehorse/PC/DOS/Drivers/USB/mhairu.zip > >2. In Windows 98, open notepad and edit the file C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT by adding these >three lines - > >PATH=%path%;C:\;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;E:\ >MOUSE.EXE >SMARTDRV.EXE 4096 16>nul > >3. Boot your Windows 98 laptop to a DOS prompt (press F5 or F8 during startup), or >with Windows 98 running restart in MS-DOS mode. > >Alternatively, edit the Msdos.sys file located on your C: drive. Under [Options] >set BootGUI=0 then restart the computer. > >You now have access to your USB device in DOS mode. > >4. If your USB device is recognised as Drive E: you can try the following - > >The comand ASSIGN was removed after MS-DOS v6.0 and is not available in Windows 98, >which uses MS-DOS v7. > >The alternative is SUBST. Example: >SUBST A: E: > >Ed > > > > Written in response to: re: Please help delete Floppy Drive! (Ed: Sunday, May 24, 2009 at 9:56 am) Responses to this message: re: Please help delete Floppy Drive! (Ed: Monday, September 14, 2009 at 11:18 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Please help delete Floppy Drive! (Aun: Wed, May 6, 2009, 1:02 am) re: Please help delete Floppy Drive! (Keith Stanier: Wed, May 6, 2009, 4:29 am) re: Please help delete Floppy Drive! (Aun: Wed, May 6, 2009, 11:17 pm) re: Please help delete Floppy Drive! (Steve: Wed, May 6, 2009, 6:40 am) Trying to install DOS app from floppies on system with no A: drive (gewg_: Wed, May 6, 2009, 10:50 am) re: Trying to install DOS app from floppies on system with no A: drive (Aun: Wed, May 6, 2009, 11:28 pm) re: Trying to install DOS app from floppies on system with no A: drive (gewg_: Thu, May 7, 2009, 12:37 pm) re: Please help delete Floppy Drive! (dhm: Sat, May 9, 2009, 8:16 pm) re: Please help delete Floppy Drive! (Ed: Sun, May 24, 2009, 9:56 am) re: Please help delete Floppy Drive! (gtea: Wed, Sep 2, 2009, 4:07 pm) re: Please help delete Floppy Drive! (Ed: Mon, Sep 14, 2009, 11:18 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum