Topic: laptop very slow booting up

[clam]

hi
have a tecra 8200 laptop that boots up very slow.
ideally i would like to format the c drive and reload everything but the floppy drive is designated 'F' drive and is external with a USB connection(there is no 'A' drive although if you double click on my computer icons for floppy drives show on 'A' & 'F').
the Bios is set to check FDD, HDD, LAN then CD-ROM, but if i put my boot disk in the floppy drive 'F' it doesn't see it at start up.

is there anything i can do to make the computer boot up from my boot disk.
anything that will help in anyway i would be most grateful
thanks

[lobo]

@clam
Make sure that USB legacy devices are enabled in the BIOS, if you still cant see the floppy at boot consider making a bootable CD with all the DOS programs on it (look in the help files in NERO or other CD burning software)

One other option is to partition your C: drive into two and copy the installation files to the second partition, you can then format the C: drive and reinstall from the second partition

Brian 8)

[Sandra]

Is it possible to set it not to boot from the drives mentioned and select other in that BIOS ?

[clam]

thanks for your help
i will try and boot from the cd.