ciaran johnston cjnologicorg dublin said copy files disk c partition mark active work yeah figured doesnt seem well thats case ill give another go tonight maybe come back error messages clarify didnt understand initially floppy drive installed doesnt physically work theres nowhere handy pick one dont fancy waiting days one arrive peats thanks answers ciaran especially need iosys commandcom msdossys cd driver sys read autoexecbat configsys files hints boot floppy p wed 20020821 1407 ciaran johnston wrote hi folks situation home pc 2 10gig hdds working floppy drive running linux solely last year recently got urge among things play windoze games normally install windows partition using boot floppy conveniently zipped havent way writing reading floppy go 1 formatting c drive system files normally would use format c floppy 2 installing cdrom drivers bootdisk wrote many years ago normally 3 booting partition wiped linux partitions first drive created partitions windows hda1 slackware redhat used cfdisk made first drive hda bootable installed windows partition lilo reran lilo installed mbr copied contents bootzip new windows partition tried boot get garbled line squiggles anyone ideas cant think anywhere athlone get new floppy drive evening thanks ciaran irish linux users group iluglinuxie httpwwwlinuxiemailmanlistinfoilug unsubscription information list maintainer listmasterlinuxie irish linux users group iluglinuxie httpwwwlinuxiemailmanlistinfoilug unsubscription information list maintainer listmasterlinuxie wed 21 aug 2002 162141 0100 bst ilug formatting windows partition linux