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general failure reading drive a
Name: Cathy Harris Date: July 9, 1999 at 08:55:23 Pacific
Comment:
a drive works in windows but not in dos msg: general failure reading drive a abort, retry, fail when I abort msg reads: current drive no longer valid
Name: Igor M Date: July 10, 1999 at 07:32:05 Pacific
Reply:
Hi,
If this happens just with some particular diskette, then it might be this diskette has some non standard format. I mean it can have more then 80 tracks or more then 18 sectors per track. Usually Windows can read such diskette without a problem, but to read it in DOS you need special driver like 800.com for example.
But if you can't read any diskette at all, check out CMOS settings for the floppy drive. May be the type of drive was set incorrect.
Good luck, Igor M
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Response Number 2
Name: Vinod Date: August 23, 2000 at 06:33:22 Pacific
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Above error message in DOS
In Win95, on clicking A drive icon - message says - disk not formatted - do you want to format On saying yes for formatting - ( full format ) - message says - no disk in drive, wrong capacity etc.,
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