At 11:00 AM 04/04/2001 Catherine Williamson  wrote:
>I can't boot with a floppy coz the floppy won't work
>tho it worked before the power supply burnt up. So
>I can't get to DOS. . . .
>Is there some other way to install Windows?



Catherine

You should try the floppy replacement, as Carroll recommended.

Alternatives, in order of preference:

  1.    Boot to a bootable CDROM (such as a Windows OEM CD). Go into
        CMOS and set the boot sequence to CDROM first. Windows will load
        and offer to FDISK, FORMAT and install Windows from the CD.

  2.    Remove the Hard Drive from the burnt case and put it into
        another PC; LLF, FDISK, Format, SCANDISK, copy files and
        create C:\CONFIG.SYS and C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT on it, then copy
        the Windows installation files from the Windows CDROM.
        Return the drive to the original case and run setup.

  3.    Install a bootable hard drive from another system with the
        Windows installation files. The problem here is the difficulty
        in setting the partition active if required (since you can
        only have one drive "Active", which, in this case, is your
        boot drive sourcing the Windows installation files).

I suspect your CMOS settings may be scrambled from the power
surge/brownout. But I'm sure you checked that the on-board floppy
controller was enabled, so, if the new floppy drive did not work.....

....perhaps, the surge/brownout caused the on-board floppy controller to
malfunction. Go into CMOS and DISABLE the on-board floppy controller. Then
install a floppy I/O card in the system and connect it to your floppy. If
you have to use a super I/O controller, disable all the other ports on the
card first. This should work; I've done this before.

Good luck.

John Chin

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