A: Drive and Win98SE

[Pluto]

I recently formatted my HDD and changed from win3.1 to 98SE. Now I can't access the a:\ drive at all. In My Comp when I try I get an OE exception in VxD, same in DOS prompt in windows, then PC freezes; but from the DOS prompt I can access the floppy but C:\ is no longer valid drive! It's a PII 333 with 32MB and I'm stuck!
Thanks for any help.

[Ya_know]

Tell us the OE exception error...

Wait, I just realized what you wrote. You actually had win3.1 on a PII 333, with 32MB of RAM? OK, I promise, I won't poke fun... :rolleyes:

I understand from what you wrote that this is a clean install, so we can't blame this on an upgrade issue. You say you can access the a: at one point, I presume that is when you are using the boot floppy, but it doesn't see the C: at that time? Do you have drive overlay software on the HDD, thus not allowing C: to be seen by a boot floppy?

Give us more info.

[Lowland]

HA HA YA KNOW!!!!

Anyway, could this be a bios issue? Or, quite possibly, the drivers are not compatible with win 98? I can't remember all the compatibility issues, but I'll bet they're there.

Have a look in control panel, device manager and see if you can glean any information

Good luck!

[xt477]

more information may be needed to answer the windows floppy issue.

First make sure you have no hardware problems. click once on my computer/then right click/goto properties/then device manager.

Any yellow explination points?
Whether there are or not I would try and get the latest drivers for your motherboard.

As for the DOS window try start/shut down/restart in msdos mode. Probably access the floppy this way.

the boot disk not seeing C: I would suspect either your using an older version of DOS that cannot access large harddrives, FAT 32 or, you have a boot sector virus.

[Pluto]

Thanks for the advice guys. Turned out to be a problem with anti-virus software which I sorted by changing the version.