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Floppy problems
My floppy drive does not work when windows 95 is loaded. It just causes a crash when it is accessed. It works perfectly in DOS mode. I have reinstalled win95 several times (doesn't help). HELP!!! This is "drive"ing me mad!! It also works in Windows DOS mode and Windows safe-mode. In the bootlog.txt file, it states that es_di.pdr has failed to initialise. Looking at device manager, some hard-disk controllers have a "!" next to them, apparently not working correctly.
Does it work in the Windows 95 DOS mode?????
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Hard Disk controlers with a !..
That's the problem, look at them carefully, when you reloaded win95, it loaded the controler again, thus you now have 2, 3 or more loaded, thus the memory address problem..
Go through them, and remove them 1 by 1 until only 1 is left, and then reboot..This should get the situation resolved..
If not then look at the controler itself, as it may have gone bad..
That's the problem, look at them carefully, when you reloaded win95, it loaded the controler again, thus you now have 2, 3 or more loaded, thus the memory address problem..
Go through them, and remove them 1 by 1 until only 1 is left, and then reboot..This should get the situation resolved..
If not then look at the controler itself, as it may have gone bad..