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From: rfutscher@pbs.org
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: installation problem
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.124817.11850@pbs.org>
Date: 27 Feb 91 17:48:17 GMT
References: <1387@ssp18.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Organization: PBS:Public Broadcasting Service, Alexandria, VA
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> I am working on an installation tool running under Windows 3.0.
> The tool will be delivered on a floppy and must be run by "win
> a:\run\install" (without quotes of course), or within Windows via
> the program- or filemanager.
> After loading the program a problem is raised: if the tool asks
> to insert the first diskette in drive A: and the right floppy is
> inserted, Windows generates a system error message "Cannot read
> from drive A:". This occures at the SDK-function 'OpenFile()' to
> open a file on drive A: and for all floppy's other than the
> original one were the tool is started from.
          <much deleated>

     I had a simular problem with my floppies.  Some times windows
would tell me I had the wrong disk in the drive.  I had to reboot
to clear the problem.  When I replaced my AWARD BIOS with a newer
version the problem went away.

   Robert Futscher   rfutscher@pbs.org