Compaq Armada 4130T formated HD and faulty floppy help!!!!!!!

[Russell Smith]

Hi, just got the above , on trial, but the machine came from a company and
they formatted the Hard disk before letting it go. My problem is that the
floppy drive is not working as it should. When doing A: <return >, the disk
werrs a bit then you get the abort, retry fail message, all the floppy disks
are formatted and work in other machines.

Question is, is the removable floppy faulty or is it an I/O problem, Also
how do I get it to recognise the CD when I carn`t use the floppy to load any
drivers. All the HD has on is command.com.

I could live with the fact that the floppy was not available if I could get
W95 running on it . A net work card to my desk top would solve the transfer
problems, but I need the operating system first....

HELP...... :(

Really gutted Russ.

[Osmo Vuorio]

In article <914370418.8422.0...@news.demon.co.uk>, "Russell Smith" <Ru...@form1.demon.co.uk> says:

>how do I get it to recognise the CD when I carn`t use the floppy to load any
>drivers. All the HD has on is command.com.

If the machine boots, use the classic dos command CTTY Com1
to connect via the serial link cable with the other machine

INTERSVR /RCOPY

Copies Interlnk files from one computer to another, provided that the
computer's serial ports are connected with a 7-wire null-modem cable.

This way you should get it alive.

Osmo