Larry, I tried that, but got this message: "seek error Drive A".  I am not
familiar with this message, but it sounds like a hardware problem.  But
since the new drive and cable didn't cure the problem, where is the hardware
failure?  The connection to the floppy disk controller on the mobo must be
working since the LED lights up when I try to access the drive, and it
actually tries to spin.  If that message isn't a hardware problem, what the
heck is it?  Joel


That should be easy to verify.
Simply press F8 and boot to safe mode command prompt only
 and see if the a: drive works.



> He thinks it's a problem with Win 98, not a hardware problem.  He
> thinks that because when I right-click on A in "my computer" I don't get
any
> context menu, and when I left-click it just locks up the application.  I
> don't get even "A is not ready, retry/cancel".  I do get that message in
> Explorer, but he thinks Win 98 is screwed up.

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