Friends,

My father recently got a 233 MHz pentium to replace his Packard-Bell 66 MHz
486DX2 machine that was showing heat problems. Yesterday, I was out at his house
to respond to a medical emergency, only to have the doctor say to ignore the
call, and call the office today.

While I was out there, I spent some time on his machine because he had a few
questions. The first was to get his 5.25 inch drive installed and recognized by
the system. After changing the address on the disk drive, we got the system up
and recognizing the disk drive.

However, when we tried to get a directory, the disk came back saying that there
was no disk in the drive. This was so in all modes, whether we tried from
filemanager, mycomputer or the command prompt.

I looked at the setup, and it said that both the 3.5 inch drive and the 5.25
drive were loaded with the proper drivers. The first drive was one from his
Packard Bell that had been used when originally installed. It was a 1.2 meg disk
drive. So I installed a known good 360 K disk drive (from my own Packard Bell
system), and had it tell me the same thing--that there was no disk installed in
the drive.

Does anyone have an idea of what setting could be off. The machine is a 233 mHz
PC Clone running Windows 4.00.950.C.

Thanks for any assistance.

Paul Pullen
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Paul Pullen
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