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**Platypus** · 1 April 2011, 10:32

Originally posted by zeitghost View Post

Before panicking like a headless parrot, take the floppy diskette out of the floppy drive, you feckwhit.

Yes I remember that one, was going to suggest the solution if you hadn't found it!

**zeitghost** · 1 April 2011, 10:34

I found it once I'd located the emergency boot disk at the bottom of the desk drawer.

And it wouldn't fit into the drive.

**TheFaQQer** · 1 April 2011, 10:36

I did the same the other week - not even getting as far as the BIOS screen.

Then I remembered that I was charging my phone from the USB socket, and it was trying to boot from there.

**PRC1964** · 1 April 2011, 10:47

Originally posted by zeitghost View Post

Before panicking like a headless parrot, take the floppy diskette out of the floppy drive, you feckwhit.

You still have a working floppy drive? I'm not even sure that I still have a CD drive.

**Sysman** · 1 April 2011, 10:55

Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post

I did the same the other week - not even getting as far as the BIOS screen.

Then I remembered that I was charging my phone from the USB socket, and it was trying to boot from there.

I've got a better one. When you specify an external USB drive as a backup device to Windows Server 2008 it whips its drive letter away and hides the disk from Explorer.

Guess what happens when you release that disk from the backup system?

It comes back as A:

And if you have 2 such USB drives allocated for backup, and you cancel backups completely, they come back as A: and B:

You couldn't make this stuff up.

**zeitghost** · 1 April 2011, 11:02

Originally posted by PRC1964 View Post

You still have a working floppy drive? I'm not even sure that I still have a CD drive.

Several.

We're up to date here I'll have you know.

And they're not 8" or 5.25" either. <preen>

**2BIT** · 1 April 2011, 11:53

Originally posted by Sysman View Post

You couldn't make this stuff up.

sadly I can believe anything having used some of the new windows O/S's

**zeitghost** · 4 April 2011, 10:54

I've just remembered I intended to change that drive today.

For one I rescued out of a scrap pc.

I wonder if that one will work any better.

**TykeMerc** · 4 April 2011, 11:01

Originally posted by zeitghost View Post

I found it once I'd located the emergency boot disk at the bottom of the desk drawer.

And it wouldn't fit into the drive.

I've certainly got that particular tee shirt.

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