Summary: I have a comment/question in your original post you said the floppy was connected to the motherboard with a 'tape' connector. If you mean the cable ...
Summary: No problem! All you have to do is install your floppy as a "tape" drive... - Go to Control Panel - Now choose "Tape Devices" - Select "Detect". Your...
Summary: You can switch from the boot floppy to the Gateway floppy after the comp has booted successfully to the A: the ROM stores the files used to boot in t...
Summary: This page for taper claims you don't need to erase with SCSI or floppy tape drives, unless you have a floppy tape and ftape version <3.03. ...
Summary: If you have another computer with a good floppy drive and a CD drive, you don't need a large number of floppy disks. Using the method of installing f...
Summary: CP Backup - Central Point Software. I believe CP Backup was part of Central Point Utilities. The software was a replacement for that provided by vari...
Summary: Obviously your parts collection is pretty sparse. I wouldn't bother with a tape drive because new tapes are relatively expensive and you need the pro...
Summary: Sorry, but Unless you made a backup to floppy, tape, cd or other media, the answer is NO. Guess this happened to everyone sometime. Backup Early - Ba...
Summary: Ok I bought a Gateway floppy that it will boot to. I did fdisk and then formatted the drive but I still can't install an OS because I have the USB cd...
Summary: On my home computer, I have two physical drives. First is divided into two partitions. One for the OS and one for data backup. The other drive has ...
Summary: Magnetism (by definition) will alter magnetic media - HDD, floppies, tape - so often see disks leaning up against speakers (!) I do not see how an IC ...
Summary: Make sure all the power and phone or cable lines are unplugged to avoid power surge/ligtening spike damage. Take out any CDs, zip disks or floppies. ...
Summary: With only one partition you can format and wipe everthing out or NOT format and have your old stuff saved by reinstalling windows over itself. NOT bot...
Summary: I just build me my "jack of all trades computer system,14" IBM monitor(they really last a long time)10 gig hd 266mhz cpu 32mb ram, 5 1/4 floppy 1.44 ...
Summary: If you re-install Windows 95 on top of Windows 95, it should just install without doing anything nasty. (should) It usually does, but you might have t...
