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a: drive probs
Name: yellow belt Date: July 24, 2003 at 17:54:18 Pacific OS: DOS 5 CPU/Ram: 13MHz/8mb
Comment:
Hello, had a problem trying to install 3.11. A few days ago the putter had DOS 6.22 and 3.11 but because of some software probs had to format the C: drive. I installed DoS 5.0 and tryed to install 3.11 again but then my A: drive kept saying "General failure reading drive A Abort, Retry, Fail" Any other disk I put in says the same thing. I inspected the cables to the A drive and it's secure, so why doesn't it read it? The little lite comes on and I hear it working.
Name: paulwybrant Date: July 24, 2003 at 18:40:36 Pacific
Reply:
could be one of two probs either the drive has gone or the disks try putting a blank disk in and seeing if it does the same thing or says invalid system disk or try the disks in another comp
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Response Number 2
Name: yellow belt Date: July 24, 2003 at 18:58:53 Pacific
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I put in a formatted blank disk and from the C: prompt it finnaly went to the A: prompt once, then when I tryed to install 3.11 it said again "General falure...." The disks work on my other 486 fine.
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Response Number 3
Name: ctcnetwork Date: July 25, 2003 at 03:42:16 Pacific
Reply:
Sounds like your drive is on the way out.
Try booting with any boot disk and then try to format a blank disk from there. If you still have no joy - get a new drive, they are not that expensive.
Good Luck . . .
:o)
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Response Number 4
Name: yellow belt Date: July 25, 2003 at 20:39:45 Pacific
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ctcnetwork, I tryed what you said and it didn't format but did recconize it as a 1.44 floppy. I put in another 3.5 inch drive and changed the ribbon and now it says "seek error reading drive A, Abort, Retry, Fail"
If I try to format a blank or not blank disk it says " Invalid media or track 0 bad - disk unusable".
Any Ideas?
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Response Number 5
Name: yellow belt Date: July 26, 2003 at 01:04:14 Pacific
Reply:
Ok I fixed it. was just a small adapter on the A: drives power.....replaced it.
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