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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in VxD, same in DOS prompt in windows, then PC freezes; but from the DOS prompt I can access the floppy but C:\ is no longer valid drive!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.
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.
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!
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.
Thanks for the advice guys. Turned out to be a problem with anti-virus software which I sorted by changing the version.