Try a different floppy disk. I have seen floppies that were damaged act
that way.

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Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
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"niteowl" wrote in message
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On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:47:04 -0500, "Ron Badour"
wrote:

Why don't you fdisk and format the drive and then install W98? If you
are
just making sure the floppy drive will work, boot with a W98 start up
disk
in the system to ensure the drive works in DOS mode.
The floppy drive will need to be set as the first boot device in the
BIOS.


Darn!! well, win98se installed just fine, eveything works, EXCEPT I
still can't copy or move anything from the floppy to the hard drive.
??????

the files show up, I can highlight them, but they will not transfer,
same error as before... "cannot read from specified device"

any ideas?

thanks,
niteowl