[vox-tech] floppy madness

[Ken Bloom]

On 2004.04.27 22:18, Jonathan wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> > I'm ready to get a new, smaller, drive.  Before I do, any suggestions
> on
> > what could be preventing booting off the win95 floppy?
> >
> Pete -
> 
> I had this problem with one of my old p2 machines some years back and had
> to
> contact a bios specialist to get a replacement bios.  I could find no
> other
> solution, but an updated bios fixed it.  Have you checked to see if you
> can
> flash it to an updated version?

He's trying to flash it to an updated version.

And I quote:

> > Googling revealed that I need to update the BIOS of the motherboard to
> > recognize drives greater than 64GB.
> >
> >
> > I have win95 on a floppy.  Goal is to boot win95 and run the executable
> > that upgrades BIOS.

Pete, perhaps someone in your general area has a win9x installed harddrive
they could lend you? Either that or you need a bios expert.

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