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[miauw62]

Got myself a craptop.
Parents gave it to me 'because it wont boot'
Started it up, heard it acces the floppy drive and then throw me 'not a valid system drive/disk'
Took out the floppy, and it happily booted windows XP
Turns out my parents somehow got it to boot from the floppy drive first and then the hard drive and fixed it.
This makes me happy because its amusing and because i can now try and have native DOS for DOS games.
(tough the only acces is LAN, floppy or cd)

[Reudh]

Someone probably fiddled with the boot settings in CMOS. It's pretty easy to do that. Mine's set to USB, HARD DRIVE, then CD/DVD. So I can boot linux off a USB if I need to.

[miauw62]

I know its easy to do, but the laptop had just been laying around in the house, and i doubt my parents changed it to that.
I also doubt a thief sneaked in, changed the CMOS settings and then sneaked out unnoticed.
(tough there was this weird thing, somehow i could not change boot sequence, so i just disabled the floppy totally)

FAKEEDIT:
It may have been caused by my mother formatting and then installing windows XP to it, because the craptop was slow as hell.

[Rose]

A lot of old PCs will try booting from the floppy first no matter what boot order settings you have.

[miauw62]

Hate to argue here, but my parents said it was from 2001, so thats not really THAT old anymore.
I'll go start it up again soon and see if i can change the hard drive with the cd station in the boot sequence.
On a side note: would it be possible to have 2 diffrent OS's on that computer and being able to choose between them when you start up the computer? (given that there is enough HDD space, ofcourse)

[Rose]

Yes, it is, and by old, I mean old enough to have a floppy drive.

(We stopped using floppies here ages and ages ago because humidity)

[Reudh]

Miauw, if you have the ability to partition your hard drive (Usually a good idea to have two partitions: one smallish one for the secondary OS and breathing space for it, and the primary partition being the primary OS and storage.) then that is what you should do.


We stopped using floppies quite recently. My laptop does not have a floppy drive, given it's a 2009 laptop, but our 2003 PC has.

[miauw62]

Thanks, and then our ideas of 'old' are not the same.
I'm still wondering what i'll be doing with the floppy drive and the single floppy in it with a single 69 kb word document on it.
Probably nothing at all, because the only way here to get data from and on that damn thing would be the craptop
Time to find out how i'll go about getting DOS on that computer. somehow DOS is fun to work with, but i dont have any idea why.
FAKEDIT due to reudh posting:
Also, i'm kind of a computer n00b, so i dont even know how i'd partition the hard drive.
But that atleast gives a use to the floppy, because if i'm right the primary and secondary OS cant use the same harddrive space, so else getting files from one to the other is hard or impossible. (especially because DOS)


EDIT:
HELL YEAH!
Turns out USB sticks DO fit into the craptop, but for some weird reason the usb ports are upside down xD

[Hubris Incalculable]

Happy birthday to me...

[miauw62]

happy b-day
Have a dwarf:

[jc6036]

Happy birthday.

Spoiler: Have some annoying fandom! (click to show/hide)

[Hubris Incalculable]

Oh, god, jc6036. That is seriously the worst present ever, but I appreciate the thought.

[Furtuka]

Spoiler: I'm happy because I just found out who's gonna be showing up in pokemon black2 and white2 (click to show/hide)

[Aklyon]

Spoiler: I'm happy because I just found out who's gonna be showing up in pokemon black2 and white2 (click to show/hide)

Giovanni? I see an R.

[freeformschooler]

Along with Gary Oak, apparently.