Floppy Disk

Hey all, So i got this old laptop, a Toshiba Tecra 730CDT, Pentium MMX, windows 95, all that good stuff. i bought the thing in a thrift shop, with some stuff like a external floppy reader en mouse ect included. got a universal laptop adapter recently that supported it. but once i power it on i...

For a couple of weeks, I've been trying to get some files off old floppy diskettes. I bought a USB floppy drive that seems to work fine, but there is a problem. These 3 1/2" floppies were last written by Windows 95 or 98. They are all missing the media descriptor byte in the BIOS parameter...

I have a PowerBook 5300cs (don't care it's recalled) It works just fine until I want to boot off a floppy disk. Whenever I put in a floppy disk (Any) it just spits it out with automatic ejection right after it shows a blinking floppy disk image (working, no X), and then boots into the hard...

In need of help regarding Korg keyboard

running win 2k laptop does not recognize floppy n bios set to boot floppy cd then hd. it wont boot from cd but sees it once booted

Ok, this is my case: I have the three install disks for MS-DOS 5.0 and I need to install it on a netbook, problem is the netbook only have USB ports so I can only install MS-DOS from USB. Before you suggest it, NO, I can't use an external USB floppy drive, I have to write the floppy image...

Old Compaq, no CD or floppy. Need to install OS, but have no idea how to get it onto the machine. Please give me any ideas that you might have....Thanks so much.

I have Compaq Presario 5220 with Win 98 installed. i made a clean install with DOS 6.22 original Diskette's. I then installed Windows 3.1 with no problem. Now i am trying to install Win 95. i have the 95 upgrade CD but 3.1 will not "see" the CD-ROM drive to install. I do not have enough Floppy...

I can't use the rear speakers in a Cambridge soundworks fourpoint pc system ( http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00000JDH5.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1056649218_.gif ) I mean, the front speakers work, the subwoofer works too, but the rear speakers don't work. I tried to invert the speakers...

I just bought a USB Floppy Disk drive. I put the disk in and now it is telling me that I need to formatt the disk. Will this erase all that is on the disk? Thanks Dawn

how, where and what to press to see the boot menu options... to choose from hard drive floppy or dvdrom Thanks is a great help

Hello, I. Need to. Rest my acer aspire one and I don't have a floppy disk or a usb flash drive. How can I rest. It

Where can buy this laptop? First Laptop weighs 24 pounds The (integrated foreign reports on the 15th) the world's first mobile computer (Laptop), launched in 1981, the market only for word processing purposes, slightly larger than the briefcase, there are 24 pounds, weighing scary. Osborne1 is...

Hi! I would like install Windows Xp. I buy a Compaq Armanda M300 Laptop. I cannot boot floppy, CD-ROM because not included. And I cannot boot USB by BIOS, I haven't got dock.... But I have external tool, I can use hdd external hard disk on desktop. How can I install Windows Xp for laptop? I...

Hi! I have a big problem with my M15X :pfff: It's starts smoothly, run through BIOS and stops with black screen and UNREGISTERED EXCEPTION HANDLER information I can not boot from any device [checked cd, usb key, hd, even floppy drive lol] (BIOS seeing HD and DVD drive, in boot menu [f12] I...

have toshiba laptop. have not used in 2 yrs. put password on it, can't remember password. try to reset it says need usb or flash drive or floppy disc to reset....how can i do it without floppy disc or flashdrive

i have just brought a new msi all in one and i set it up and used it for one day then it wouldnt let me use my password it was saying "this feature requires removable media, such as a floppy disk or USB flash drive. please insert a floppy disk or connect a USB flash drive, and then try again"...

Hello, can anyone help? I have a file which I wish to run on my computer but unfortunately it wants me to run this from floppy disk only. Problem is I do not have a floppy disk drive. I've been told to extract it to a file and then run setup.exe from there. How do I do this?

Hello, I have an old compaq presario 1245 that I still compose on because it has software that I like and is unavailable for my newer computer. It is too slow for internet access so I use my newer computer for that. By use of a floppy to move data, I recently seem to have infected the old...

Until now my backup method consisted to manually copying files to 5-1/4 floppy disk, 3-1/2 floppy, zip drive CD, DVD and now BD-R. This technique has it's limitations. A few years back Egghead Software was offering some backup program for $10 with an upgrade to Windows 3.1. This seemed like...