Hello Paul

I am not sure but you may want to check your cable..

Pam Wicks

Pullen, Paul wrote:

> 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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