The four diskette plus Erd floppy

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I'm puzzled about the need for the four setup disks. Seems like they
do the same thing the install disk does, up to the point of doing a
repair. Are these disks really needed? Or does their purpose have
something to do with a situation where the install disk fails to boot
for some reason?

Art

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The setup disks are only needed when you cannot boot the CD-Rom.

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"Art" wrote:
| I'm puzzled about the need for the four setup disks. Seems like they
| do the same thing the install disk does, up to the point of doing a
| repair. Are these disks really needed? Or does their purpose have
| something to do with a situation where the install disk fails to boot
| for some reason?
|
| Art
|
| http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg

 

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"Art" <null@zilch.com> wrote in message
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> I'm puzzled about the need for the four setup disks. Seems like they
> do the same thing the install disk does, up to the point of doing a
> repair. Are these disks really needed? Or does their purpose have
> something to do with a situation where the install disk fails to boot
> for some reason?
>
> Art
>
> http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg

The four disks are a legacy from the days when some
machines did not have CD drives. You don't need them
any more.

 

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On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 12:52:16 +1000, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@fly.com>
wrote:

>> I'm puzzled about the need for the four setup disks. Seems like they
>> do the same thing the install disk does, up to the point of doing a
>> repair. Are these disks really needed? Or does their purpose have
>> something to do with a situation where the install disk fails to boot
>> for some reason?

>The four disks are a legacy from the days when some
>machines did not have CD drives. You don't need them
>any more.

Makes sense. But I'm going keep my set. After posting yesterday, I
tried installing the Recovery Console. For some unknown reason, I kept
getting file copy errors. I abandoned it for the time being.

This mornng, I got a NTLDR Missing message during boot. Could NOT boot
from the Install CD! So I used my Setup diskette set and did a Repair.

Any ideas as to what might have happened? I'll probably try doing the
Recovery Console install again today. Why might I have experienced a
failure to boot using my install CD? What might I have tried to get it
to boot without resorting to the diskettes?

Thanks.

Art

http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg

 

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> >The four disks are a legacy from the days when some
> >machines did not have CD drives. You don't need them
> >any more.
>
> Makes sense. But I'm going keep my set. After posting yesterday, I
> tried installing the Recovery Console. For some unknown reason, I kept
> getting file copy errors. I abandoned it for the time being.
>
> This mornng, I got a NTLDR Missing message during boot. Could NOT boot
> from the Install CD! So I used my Setup diskette set and did a Repair.
>
> Any ideas as to what might have happened? I'll probably try doing the
> Recovery Console install again today. Why might I have experienced a
> failure to boot using my install CD? What might I have tried to get it
> to boot without resorting to the diskettes?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Art
>
> http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg

That's usually a sign of a dirty/scratched or a failing cd-r or cd-r/w disc,
I once bought some cheap discs that degraded very quickly and started to
give read errors 6 months after they were written. I got some decent discs
and copied the data over and after a couple more months they had degraded
completely and are now used as drinks coasters.

It can also be caused by a cd-rom drive on the way out as the optics get
misaligned over time - had that problem with a Philips cd-r drive a few
years back.

Chris

 

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On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 20:34:05 GMT, "Chris Dugan"
<chrisdotdugan@bloodyobvious.co.uk> wrote:

>> >The four disks are a legacy from the days when some
>> >machines did not have CD drives. You don't need them
>> >any more.
>>
>> Makes sense. But I'm going keep my set. After posting yesterday, I
>> tried installing the Recovery Console. For some unknown reason, I kept
>> getting file copy errors. I abandoned it for the time being.
>>
>> This mornng, I got a NTLDR Missing message during boot. Could NOT boot
>> from the Install CD! So I used my Setup diskette set and did a Repair.
>>
>> Any ideas as to what might have happened? I'll probably try doing the
>> Recovery Console install again today. Why might I have experienced a
>> failure to boot using my install CD? What might I have tried to get it
>> to boot without resorting to the diskettes?
>>

>That's usually a sign of a dirty/scratched or a failing cd-r or cd-r/w disc,
>I once bought some cheap discs that degraded very quickly and started to
>give read errors 6 months after they were written. I got some decent discs
>and copied the data over and after a couple more months they had degraded
>completely and are now used as drinks coasters.
>
>It can also be caused by a cd-rom drive on the way out as the optics get
>misaligned over time - had that problem with a Philips cd-r drive a few
>years back.

Fortunately that wasn't the problem. I noticed script errors when
using Help. Then IE6 misbehaved while doing a Windows update.

Downloading and reinstalling IE6 + sp1 has taken care of the problems.
I was able to do the Recovery Console install, and Windows Help now
works fine. My CD install disk is ok. And I do have it backed up. The
machine, including the CD ROM drive is new. Dunno what started the
problem with IE 6 unless it had something to do with the endless
downloads and installs of patches and sp4, etc.

Art

http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg