[Floppertalk] Help! The computer sticks after reboot during i nstallation!!

jleyda floppertalk@oldskool.org
Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:09:01 -0600


It didn't work.

My guess is that the diskette itself is bad or formatted weird.
In pure dos, do a "format a: /u" and if the disk has any bad sectors or doesn't format out to the correct size (ie, it's a 1.44mb disk and it formats to 1.2mb or 720k) then try another disk.

For some reason, install is unable to write to sectors 2 and 3.

-jeff!


-----Original Message-----
From: CJ Luck [mailto:clrockets@charter.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 12:31 PM
To: floppertalk@oldskool.org
Subject: Re: [Floppertalk] Help! The computer sticks after reboot during i nstallation!!


Thanks! It worked. Here's the vectable.dat file for u 2 
analyze.

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:53:26 -0600
  jleyda <jleyda@micron.com> wrote:
>I'm starting to get a really bad feeling about this, but
>try this one:
>  
>http://www.waste.org/~winkles/install.zip
><http://www.waste.org/~winkles/install.zip> 
>  
>do the "install /2" again.
>  
>I've removed all the unnecessary diskette writes from the
>2nd portion of the install.
>  
>This version (for me, even running it in a DOS window
>under XP) was able to read data off the floppy and save 
>it to a file called vectabl.dat. 
>  
>good luck.
>  
>You should most certainly mail me the file "vectabl.dat"
>that it creates so I can verify that it's actually a 
>vector table and not some random garbage from your floppy 
>disk.  If install is failing this miserably, I can't 
>imagine that it was actually able to write the correct 
>data to the floppy, but ya never know.
>  
>-jeff!
>  
>  
>  
>  -----Original Message-----
>From: CJ Luck [mailto:clrockets@charter.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:14 PM
>To: floppertalk@oldskool.org
>Subject: Re: [Floppertalk] Help! The computer sticks 
>after reboot during installation!!
>
>
>When i try install /2 it hangs when trying to read the
>disk.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: jleyda <mailto:jleyda@micron.com>  
>To: 'floppertalk@oldskool.org' 
><mailto:'floppertalk@oldskool.org'>  
>Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 6:53 AM
>Subject: RE: [Floppertalk] Help! The computer sticks 
>after reboot during installation!!
>
>Do you have any virus protection enabled in the BIOS on
>your computer?
>Flopper tries to re-write the boot sector at this point, 
>which is rather virus-like in behavior and might be 
>caught by the BIOS.
>  
>Are you using a 1.44mb disk?  (high density 3.5") and a
>high density 3.5" drive?
>  
>The vital information that flopper needs *might* be saved
>onto the diskette even though it hung up at that point. 
>  Try this:
>  
>Boot into safe mode DOS, change to wherever you unzipped
>flopper, put the flopper diskette in the drive and type 
>"install /2"  and install should then attempt to read the 
>data off the disk that it needs and will save it to a 
>file called vectabl.dat.  The file will be 1k in size.
>You'll need the install.com from the new version of 
>flopper that I linked you to yesterday.
>  
>  
>If you'd like, mail that vectable.dat file to me
>jeff@silent.net <mailto:jeff@silent.net>  and I can check 
>to see if it appears to be valid data or garbage, and 
>we'll take it from there.
>  
>sorry for the headaches.  You've got a weird error,
>that's for sure.
>  
>-jeff!
>  
>-----Original Message-----
>From: CJ Luck [mailto:clrockets@charter.net]
>Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 8:29 PM
>To: floppertalk@oldskool.org
>Subject: Re: [Floppertalk] Help! The computer sticks 
>after reboot during installation!!
>
>
>when i run the install program after booting to the
>floppy disk, and push enter, the drive light comes on but 
>nothing happens.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: jleyda@micron.com <mailto:jleyda@micron.com>  
>To: floppertalk@oldskool.org 
><mailto:floppertalk@oldskool.org>  
>Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 6:46 AM
>Subject: RE: [Floppertalk] Help! The computer sticks 
>after reboot during installation!!
>
>can you provide just a few more details?
>actually, can you try this version and see if this helps?
>  
>http://www.waste.org/~winkles/flop_102.zip
><http://www.waste.org/~winkles/flop_102.zip> 
>  
>-jeff!
>  
>-----Original Message-----
>From: CJ Luck [mailto:clrockets@charter.net]
>Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 12:18 AM
>To: floppertalk@oldskool.org 
><mailto:floppertalk@oldskool.org> 
>Subject: [Floppertalk] Help! The computer sticks after 
>reboot during installation!!
>
>
>minordomo@oldskool.org
>

CJ Luck
Technical Director
289-8605
clrockets@charter.net

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