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Solving errors with #214

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Name: Stephen Fox
Date: July 1, 2006 at 20:05:22 Pacific
OS: Windows 3.11 WFW
CPU/Ram: PENTIUM MMX 333MHz; 384MB
Product: GATEWAY 2000 P6-333 DESKT
Comment:

Just wanted to give a 'head's up'.

I noticed in this forum, and my own experiences, that there have been problems with erro #214. When you get the error, eject the floppy. It seems that if you gently move the floppy head back and forth and/or try lightly spinning the notch on the back of the floppy that this can solve the problem. Then reinsert the floppy and hit continue.

No gurantees but it might help.

Stephen Fox
Windows 95 4.00.950 C
PENTIUM MMX 333MHz; 384MB RAM
GATEWAY 2000 P6-333 DESKTOP 80GB



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Name: jboy
Date: July 2, 2006 at 00:01:42 Pacific
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214
Source file is unreadable. This problem is probably due to drive hardware problems, corrupt files or disks, or, if you are setting up from a network, network problems. Setup error 214 can also be caused by incorrect CMOS settings for floppy drives or third party extended memory managers.

I don't believe it's anywhere near as common an error as you make it out to be, nor is it always due to floppy disk alignment

After twelve years & a great many machines, I've yet to encounter that one, but I'll try and keep an eye out for it (and my "head up")

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