How do I switch between CD-ROM and floppy drives on my laptop?
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There should be an icon in your system tray that allows you "safely remove hardware".  This works for USB devices as well as swappable devices such as floppy drives as CDROM drives.  When you double-click that icon to open the safely remove hardware window, you're presented with a list of devices.  Click on the device you want to remove, then click "stop".  Once Windows stops the device and tells you it's safe to remove, you can swap the drives.
524980
Remove it from Bios and try, not so sure it'll work, cos drive B is reserved for secondary Floppy Disk Drive.\n\nGood Luck :)
203955
Your best bet is to boot from floppy or CD and just repartition/reformat the hard drive.
456454
The first thing you should do is make sure you have ALL the drivers your computer needs to work!!  i.e. network card, sound card, video card etc...(they may not all be on your windows disk) then when your sure you have everything (very sure),Pop in a windows start up disk (Floppy A type) restart your comp. After a min. or so you will have some options appear, Select..[Start computer without CD-rom support.]After some time you will see a command prompt like this..\n\n A:/\n\nmake it look like this..A:/format c:\n\nthen hit enter and follow the prompts, it should take about an hour or so. After its done start your computer with the Floppy disk again and select [Start computer with CD-rom support] it will tell you the letter of your CD rom. If your CD-rom is "E" than make your prompt look likt this...\nA:/E:/setup.\n\n     Good luck\n       -Mark
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what's a floppy disk?
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First determine if the CD-ROM driver is installed. Put your CD into the CD-ROM and give it a few seconds to spin up. Type "d:" and see if the prompt changes to "D:&#92;". If so, type "setup".\n\nIf your CD-ROM is not accessible, the next thing to try is to check/adjust the BIOS settings to make sure that the CD drive is configured as a "bootable" device. This step differs from one computer to the next but the process is similar. Re-start your computer by pressing CTRL and ALT and DEL keys all at once. When the computer restarts, hit "F2" (or on some machines it is "F1" or "F9" or "F10" or "DEL" - sometimes the splash screen says what to do to reach the setup screen). From there you should see a menu that says something like "Boot Order" or "Bootable Devices". Select this and make sure the CD-ROM is listed. If not then click through the options and select the CD-ROM when you see it. If possible, move it to the top of the list. Leave the CD in the drive and reboot the computer. It should either start the CD setup program when it reboots or ask you if you wish to boot from the CD (say "Yes").\n\nIf none of that worked, AND you have a floppy drive - use another computer and download a bootdisk with generic CD drivers from bootdisk.com. You can use any one. The Windows 98 boot fits on one diskette and will work fine. Take the diskette you just downloaded, put it into the floppy driver in your laptop and reboot the laptop make sure you leave your CD in the CD drive). When it restarts it should bring up a dos window and hopefully your "D" drive will be accessible. If so, type "D:/setup" and your WIndows Install (or system restore if that's what you have) should start. If there's no setup.exe, do a directory of the cd disk by typing "dir d:&#92;*.exe" and you should get a list programs. One of then should look like "setup.exe" or "restore.exe" or something like that. Run a program by type it's name (ex. "D:&#92;RESTORE.EXE").\n\nI used "D:" as the disk example. If you have more than one disk device or partition, your CD drive might be "E:".\n\nI hope this helps. If you manage to get your CD drive recognized AND you have the restore disks that came with your laptop you should get good results.
87705
Right click on my computer - choose Manage\nGo to Storage - Disk management.\nRightclick your cdrom drive and choose "change drive letter and path".
981454
You will need a floppy, go to start>settings>control panel>add/remove programs>click start up (insert floppy)>click create disk!
680430
try sony usb Floppy drive\nu can purchase it online or from your local dealer
599376
Assuming you mean a floppy disk, put a blank floppy in preferably, and go to My Computer, and just drag the file into the A: drive, by default.
324430
Yes in newer versions of Windows, type the following at a command prompt:\n\nconvert c: /fs:ntfs\n\nJust make sure it's something you want to do.
237882
If it has a USB port you can get (or borrow) a USB CDROM drive. If it has a floppy disc drive you can maybe get software on floppy disc for internet access. They may even make CDROM drives that can hook up to the parallel port if the laptop has one. If it has an ethernet jack, you could hook it up to your cable modem with an ethernet hub or switch really easy.
943711
Do you mean a floppy disc?
726952
This means that either one of the two floppy drives is defective (or very selective), or the disk data got corrupted.\n\nOne thing you could try is to format the disk in the picky computer.  This may get the disk to work on both.
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if you are using windows 98-you can create it  by just going to control panel -add/remove programs- windows setup - make a bootable disk .and insert a floppy( any blank or used one, but floppy should work) and click start after 20% is completed it starts your floppy to convert it as bootable floppy.\nthats it..u also now have a bootable floppy\nbye\ngopi
967280
Use a normal CD-R or CD-RW. Open the drive , drag and drop your files and start burning by choosing the option which appears on the left side.
312269
Since you no longer have a PC the least expensive way would be to take it to a shop and have them burn the files you need on CD's.  If you had or possibly have access to another PC the procedure is pretty straight forward.  Connect this drive as a slave drive.