Ok, So thanks (many times over) to Klunk and several others on this board, I now have a 2GB HD in my IA-1 running Win98SE and it is fantastic! A cool little machine to play with and a very satisfying hack! I only have one problem. Every time that I try to install a driver, the little bugger hangs for about 10 minutes trying to access the A:\ drive. Standard 98SE procedure is to disable it in BIOS or in device manager. Anyone know what I can do on this machine to prevent it from looking for the A: drive and running in circles until it gives up? Maybe a registry hack to remove the A: drive completely or modify the timeout wait settings. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!
While I'm at it, are there any USB NICs with a native driver in 98SE?
02-17-2002 00:45:01
RE:Disabling A: Drive in Win98SE (modified 0 times)
TweakUI (can dowload from Microsoft's website) will let you remove it from being displayed in My Computer, don't remember if it actually takes it out from the system searching for it. There was some discussion of this many moons ago in the iOpener and Webplayer areas, try a search there using keywords 'floppy' and 'disable'....
B'Dog
02-17-2002 10:05:46
RE:Disabling A: Drive in Win98SE (modified 0 times)
I had tried the subst a: c: trick a couple of times but couldn't get it to work. I gave it one last shot and it worked that time. I must have fat-fingered it the first couple of times. It just basically replaces the A: listing on your system with a copy of the C: listing, so when I go into my computer, the C: drive shows up twice. Not totally pretty, but better than waiting 15 minutes for the machine to give up on looking for the a: drive!
02-26-2002 14:08:57
RE:Disabling A: Drive in Win98SE (modified 0 times)
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