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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: lottsm on December 10, 2010, 08:20:57 PM

Title: ASUS Motherboard Make Disk for DOS Menu. No "a" drive, but comp. says yes.
Post by: lottsm on December 10, 2010, 08:20:57 PM

I don't have an "a" floppy drive.  I have installed a new hard drive, (only one in system) put XP on it and have now begun the motherboard installation.  I bought an external floppy drive, thinking that this would help the installation.  I am assuming that I don't need the "NVIDIA RAID Driver Page" nor the "JMicron JMB36X RAID Driver Page," which leaves me with the FreeDOS command prompt.  Upon choosing that, I am faced with:

    C:\>

I went to www.freedos.org, but I wasn't able to figure out what to do.  If I shut down the computer and restart, it prompts me to insert the installation CD for the motherboard, so...what do I do now?

Title: Re: ASUS Motherboard Make Disk for DOS Menu. No "a" drive, but comp. says yes.
Post by: BC_Programmer on December 10, 2010, 08:24:33 PM

what does FreeDOS have to do with installing windows drivers?

Title: Re: ASUS Motherboard Make Disk for DOS Menu. No "a" drive, but comp. says yes.
Post by: JJ 3000 on December 11, 2010, 12:15:12 AM

Are you trying to install XP on a RAID array?
What motherboard?

Title: Re: ASUS Motherboard Make Disk for DOS Menu. No "a" drive, but comp. says yes.
Post by: lottsm on December 12, 2010, 05:37:40 PM

The motherboard is an ASUS P5N-E SLI. I don't really know what a RAID array is, (but I think that it requires multiple hard drives) nor what FreeDOS has to do with anything; I am ignorant regarding many aspects of computers, but am trying to learn.  I only have one hard drive, if that helps.  After installing XP and during the installation of the motherboard software, I see a screen saying:

    "Welcome to ASUS Motherboard Make Disk for DOS Menu
                                                                                        Rev.1.0

    1)    NVIDIA RAID Driver Page
    2)    JMicron JMB36x RAID Driver Page
    3)    FreeDOS command prompt
Please choose 1 ~ 3:"

I posted here because this is on an XP machine, but maybe I should re-post on another part of this forum (?)  I mentioned that about the "a" drive because during at least one of my multiple attempts to install everything, the computer kept looking for a disk in the "a" drive.  The external floppy disk is seen as the "b" drive, but I don't know how to do away with the non-existent "a" drive.

Title: Re: ASUS Motherboard Make Disk for DOS Menu. No "a" drive, but comp. says yes.
Post by: lottsm on December 13, 2010, 09:51:53 PM

Okay, I will delete this question if possible tomorrow and re-post as two separate issues...well, probably just one because I have given up on the installation of that software; I think that the computer will function without it.

Title: Reassign the drive to A.
Post by: Clankfan on December 16, 2010, 07:00:59 PM

Reassign the drive to A.

Title: Re: Reassign the drive to A.
Post by: patio on December 17, 2010, 01:16:09 AM

Quote from: Clankfan on December 16, 2010, 07:00:59 PM

Reassign the drive to A.

Stop please...