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March 23rd 07, 06:21 PM
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running from from vista boot up
Vista has nothing to do with booting from a floppy, this is controlled by
your motherboard BIOS. Do the directions for this update from WD state the the floppy it creates is bootable, can you provide a link? -- ---- Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 How to Post http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.db-pc.com __________________________________________________ _______________________________ "Mark Ryan" wrote in message ... my western digital sata hard drive clicks now and again, there is an update i have downloaded to rectify this problem from western digital which boots from a floppy, i have tried to run it on my laptop but it wont run, it just keeps saying remove discs and press any button to retry. any ideas would be great. seems as vista does not like booting from floppys. would i need to boot with a another version of windows startup disc then swap discs at the dos prompt?? 
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March 23rd 07, 06:56 PM
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running from from vista boot up
the link i used is
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc....&p_topvi ew=1 hope this helps to try and work out why its not working regards mark "David B." wrote in message ... Vista has nothing to do with booting from a floppy, this is controlled by your motherboard BIOS. Do the directions for this update from WD state the the floppy it creates is bootable, can you provide a link? -- ---- Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 How to Post http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.db-pc.com __________________________________________________ _______________________________ "Mark Ryan" wrote in message ... my western digital sata hard drive clicks now and again, there is an update i have downloaded to rectify this problem from western digital which boots from a floppy, i have tried to run it on my laptop but it wont run, it just keeps saying remove discs and press any button to retry. any ideas would be great. seems as vista does not like booting from floppys. would i need to boot with a another version of windows startup disc then swap discs at the dos prompt??
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March 23rd 07, 07:14 PM
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running from from vista boot up
Rather than trying to figure out why it won't work, create your own boot
floppy and copy everything but the files with the .com extension to it. -- ---- Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 How to Post http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.db-pc.com __________________________________________________ _______________________________ "Mark Ryan" wrote in message ... the link i used is http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc....&p_topvi ew=1 hope this helps to try and work out why its not working regards mark "David B." wrote in message ... Vista has nothing to do with booting from a floppy, this is controlled by your motherboard BIOS. Do the directions for this update from WD state the the floppy it creates is bootable, can you provide a link? -- ---- Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 How to Post http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.db-pc.com __________________________________________________ _______________________________ "Mark Ryan" wrote in message ... my western digital sata hard drive clicks now and again, there is an update i have downloaded to rectify this problem from western digital which boots from a floppy, i have tried to run it on my laptop but it wont run, it just keeps saying remove discs and press any button to retry. any ideas would be great. seems as vista does not like booting from floppys. would i need to boot with a another version of windows startup disc then swap discs at the dos prompt??
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