[Coco] Running 5.25" drives with Win 2000
Bruce W. Calkins
brucewcalkins at charter.net
Mon Nov 20 06:11:09 EST 2006
Windows 2000 is the direct ancestor of XP. It has been clearly established
that XP does not support 5.25 drives in the CoCo mode. I suspect it relates
to the New Technology File Structure (NTFS) core. In this rare case, the
answer is 98. The last of that line, ME is unstable and has some other
problems that make it unsuitable for our CoCo stuff too.
Bruce W.
> I'm having a little problem trying to get one of my
> systems to work with a 5.25" drive. The system in
> question is a P3 - 500MHz. I can set the BIOS for a 5.25"
> drive as either A or B, but when I boot into Windows 2000,
> every time I try to run the drive, I get "Please insert a
> disk into drvie B" (or A) message.
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