i have mandrake 8.1 on cd, but the pc i want to put it on (comcrap) boots off the floppy at startup (and i can't get into the bios cuz i installed a new hdd which i did not put compaqs setup utility ...

Microsoft vet revisits the gloriously manual era of write protection Microsoft's Raymond Chen took a delightful trip down memory lane this week, tracing how write protection for removable media has ...