First post, by zv45beta
Hi everyone,
I'm having a problem which prevents me from doing crucial things while setting up my Windows 3.1 time-travel rig.
I have a Siemens computer, an industrial beast, based on the 440LX chipset and powered by a 300MHz Pentium II.
Currently running DOS 6.22 and WfW3.11 on it, got audio, video and networking running and I'm really pleased with the outcome.
However, recently, I had to take some Win3.1 screenshots for my personal projects, and I was greeted by an error that says that my disk is, apparently, write-protected.
The disks were written by my main Win10 computer without any problems, and it was weird to me that my old PC won't write to them.
DOS won't do it either; formatting the floppy will result in a Write protect error.
I've tried multiple disks, changing the floppy drive, changing the floppy cable, resetting the BIOS, together with checking that the Write to floppy security option was enabled, and finally triple-checked that the write-protect tab is in the correct position.
The computer still won't read any floppies I try formatting and/or writing.
Any advice would be helpful.
Thanks
Main rig: A64 X2 5000+|4GB DDR2|HD 5450|MCP6P-M2+|1.2TB|Win10
Old dev rig: Esprimo E5905|P4 630|2GB DDR2|GMA 950|250GB|Vista SP2
Win3.1 rig: Siemens Pro C6|440LX|PII 300|128MB|Matrox G100|40GB|W3.11
XP rig: IBM S50|P4 3GHz|865G|512MB|82865G|80GB|XP SP3