Black screen, Large white cursor.

First thanks to IuliusAugustus but CONT-ALT-DELETE doesn't work.

The problem PC has a floppy
Lashed up a floppy on my sons PC and set it up
Went on 2 day Safari and located floppy disks. (FUJIFILM MF2HD 1.44 MB formatted)
Downloaded Windows recovery files, saved to desktop and ran
Command prompt window opened to produce files on 6 floppies
Error message received:- The drive cannot find the sector requested

All for now. Hope it makes sense.

Off for my Saturday pints and poker. Cheers Boyacka.

 

To: IuliusAugustus,

I'd thought of that but the large cursor suggested something else was going on.

To: Boyacka

IuliusAugustus' idea may still be sound but we need to get your computer started. When you receive the error with the floppies is that during the write on your son's PC or the read on your's?

 

The problem occurs when trying to write on my sons PC. I have never used floppies so I know nothing about them. Cheers Boyacka.

 

Ok, let's try the simplest first.

Make sure the disks you are using are not write protected?

In "My Computer" is the floppy drive recognised?

In the BIOS Setup is "seek floppy" or similar enabled?

Is the floppy drive new or old? If old approximately how old, did it work in another system etc?

There's other things to try but give me the answers to the above first and we'll take it from there.

 

Hi boyacka,

Thread reopened, can you answer my questions in the above post?

 

Hi, Listened to running reports and the shoot out. Sounded like a good game and you were unlucky.
I now have a set of 6 floppy disks created elsewhere.
I can't find the floppy disk drive on the problem PC.
I don't know if it's helpful but I have changed the CD/ROM drive and can now access BartPE.
Boot Up. FloppySeek. Enabled on the problem PC

 

Thought i.d replied but perhaps I haven't. Boyacka

 

You have but that midweek game took more out of me than I thought

Give me a few hours to waken up and refresh my mind on this thread and I'll get back to you. In the mean time could you verify that the floppy drive is connected properly and you have no POST errors on startup.

EDIT:

Most (all?) floppy drives have an LED on the front, does this light up during startup? Does it stay on or only show for a second or two?

 

OK, Just reread the thread.

As you can now boot from a CD try that XP disk with a repair install.

Let me know how you get on and we'll worry about the floppy drive afterwards.

Could you confirm that the problem computer has a CD/DVD writer in case it's required?

 

Busy day ahead. Watch Sunderland stuff the mags. Then Poker tourney at the Snooker Club. Anyway just to let you know all is not as it seems. The only CD that I can boot is BartPE and I don't think I should play with that.
It seems to be so erratic. At one stage I got a message asking for a SP2 disc which I have now downloaded but I can't recreate the situation.( I think this was while trying to load Windows Disc.)
Thanks for the continued interest. Boyacka. FTM (f45k the mags.)

 

Hi Boyacka,

Try cleaning the lens of your drive and your XP disc also check if your XP disc can boot on another system (try it but obviously cancel the installation).

Good luck with the poker (texas holdem?) and the footie, have to admit my fav English team is Spurs though, they seem to have a similar success rate as the terrors (ie look good on paper but win F all ).