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From: ANTant@zimage.com (Ant)
Subject: Re: Hmmmm, Where is the floppy drive in XP?
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james@nospam.com wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 21:23:38 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
>  wrote:

> >In message , 
> >gfretwell@aol.com writes:
> >>On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:58:54 -0600, james@nospam.com wrote:
> >[]
> >>>I would have looked already, but I cant remember what key to hit to get
> >>>into the bios. Its a homemade computer so looking that up may be tricky.
> >>>I think I need to start putting labels on every computer saying what key
> >>>needs to be pressed to go to the bios.
> >
> >On most, they tell you on screen during boot, especially desktops rather 
> >than laptops. (If a CRT monitor, sometimes before the monitor has warmed 
> >up, though, if it is turned on at the same time as the PC.) Sometimes 
> >hidden behind a splash screen, though _that_ usually has a "press xx to 
> >dismiss splash screen" on it somewhere.
> >>
> >>You are probably on to something. Go into BIOS setup and be sure the
> >>FDD adapter is enabled.
> >[]
> >Though the lack of any flash from the drive's LED makes me suspect it 
> >isn't getting power ...

> IT WORKS NOW.
> Turns out the bios was set to "NONE' for floppy drives. I changed that,
> and it works. It tried to boot from the floppy in that drive, which just
> contains a text tile. I had to remove the floppy so XP would load from
> the HDD. 

> Thanks for all who helped. Is one of you who made me suspect the bios. I
> actually did not know floppies could be disabled in the bios. Now I do!

I think all drives can be disabled in BIOS' CMOS. :)
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