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5 1/4" floppy on 4122
I'm trying to install an old TEAC 5.25" drive in an almost-as-old Compaq
4122. Holding down F10 on bootup and choosing "Computer Setup", "Storage" shows that the disk is considered a 3 1/2" disk (Storage: A: 1.44-megabyte (3.5 inch)". Help (F1) says "By selecting the storage icon you can display or change the configuration of your computer's diskette and hard drives." When I do that, Help says Diskette Drive A: allows you to specify the type of diskette drive configured as A: as follows:" and a 360-K 5.25" disk is one of the options. But I don't see any way to change to it. Anyone know about this old issue? A little mo My Computer, Floppy Drive A brings up a "Disk in Drive A is not formatted. Would you like to format it now?" Selecting "OK" brings up a formatting menu with 1.44M 3.5" and 720K 3.5" offered as options. Just to see what would happen, I chose 720K... but got the proper error message that the disk in the drive was not that capacity. -- --John Registered Linux User #291592 |
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