Have you tried accessing floppy "B:"? IIRC, this gives access to the floppy
drive "A:" contents when booting from a CD. HTH

Jim Maki
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Jess Brazil
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 3:19 AM
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> Subject: [PCBUILD] Boot from CD - How to access floppy drive.
>
>
> I have physical damages on my bootable floppies that were stored
> for sometime
> (due to humidity i suspect). I'm trying to recreate & transfer floppy
> emulation boot info to bootable CDs. Had problems with 2 boot
> floppies because
> they need to write data back to the floppy disk. Only SURE way to
> have these
> floppies is to boot from CD then create the floppies.
>
> When i boot from CD, boot info from CD becomes floppy drive A:
> and physical
> floppy drive cannot be accessed in DOS. How can i access the
> floppy drive? I
> can only boot from floppy, CDRom & hard disk. I must be able to create the
> floppies even without Windows installed.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Jess

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