Horun wrote:That forces Windows to run ATA compatible IDE drivers not the standard Enhanced/Protected mode drivers iirc.
Sounds like you need proper IDE controller and chipset drivers.
Reinstalled, installed my motherboard and gpu driver as I always do. Same problem. Went into decice properties and I have exclemation marks for:
"Standard floppy disk controller"
"Primary bus master ide controller (dual fifo)"
"Secondary ide controller (dual fifo)"
I never had this before. Cant locate drivers on the win98se cdrom.
But it dawns on me tvat I connected a 5.25 inch really old drive to the floppy controller to test if it worked. The ide cable of that floppy wasnt like a normal 1.44" disk drive. It had all the pins on both rows (all my diskette drives here are missing at least one pin). The drive worked half. It showed the light when seeking and made noise but it could not read anything... now that I think about it my win98se never worked anymore since. (I did the testing on a win95 partition but same drive, same system).
Is it at all possible that 5.25inch floppy drive somehow damaged my motherboard ide/floppy controller???