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[zeitghost]

If it can wait until Saturday I can fix for £15

Bargain.

[zeitghost]

I've certainly got that particular tee shirt.

Not helped by the drive being mounted an inch and a half behind the front panel so that you can't actually see that there's a disk in the drive.

Ancient Dell thing, so clever & neat & yet so functionally redundant.

[suityou01]

If it can wait until Saturday I can fix for £15

[TykeMerc]

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.

[zeitghost]

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.

[2BIT]

You couldn't make this stuff up.

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

[zeitghost]

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>

[Sysman]

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.

[PRC1964]

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.

[TheFaQQer]

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.

[zeitghost]

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.

[Platypus]

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]

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