Summary: I get this DOS message at start up: Floppy disk fails (40) If I press F1 I can start up. Does this mean that my floppy disk drive has died?...
Summary: good afternoon, I am having a problem with an A: drive. At system startup, after memory check, I keep receiving the following error "Floppy Disk Fail ...
Summary: AHH someone help! I know that the floppy drive fail (40) is supposed to be fixed by just pushing in the ribbon and stuff but I have tried everything I...
Summary: I get the floppy disk fail (40) message upon booting up...my ribbons are on right, and the device manager says A Drive in MS DOS, and something in my ...
Summary: Take your floppy drive and cable out and put it in another computer. 1. If it boots right, the problem is in the bios or in the floppy drive co...
Summary: I'm suddenly receiving this error message just after the post, and I'm unable to use the drive at all. I've tried using the same floppy drive in a dif...
Summary: I was installing a 40GB Maxtor HD on my atx mb...and now i am coming across "Floppy Disk Fail 40"....i didnt even mess with the power cables for the f...
Summary: I am having a similar problem. First I'm running windows 3.1 on an Intel 100 mhz, with 32 bit access (I don't know how it works but it does). My pro...
Summary: When I try to start up this old computer, it reads Floppy disk(s) fail (co). I've tried another floppy drive and I've tried different ribbon cables, ...
Summary: It seems that there is some problems with my floppy disk drive. The error message is either "General failure reading drive A" or "Fail on INT 24". W...
Summary: "OK HERE IS THE ENTIRE ARTICAL" SEE IF YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT **I GIVE FULL CREDIT TO MICROSOFT COPARTATION** ADDING DISK DRIVES..MS-DOS has a built...
Summary: I have a system which I use DOS 5 on and it has a backup programme on it. The backup programme does a weekly backup of any files that you have changed...
Summary: I am trying to install a floppy disk onto myc old computer, it is connected correctly bt when I run DOS and type in A:/, it says unable to locate dri...
Summary: I tried to move the mother board that was working fine before into another case. When I turned the computer on (with nothing on the motherboard except...
Summary: Alright, I have a floppy disk that says it's got 2 MB. I want the 2 MB... I need the 2 MB... So I'm using Windows ME and a DOS prompt ver 4.90.3000 ...
Summary: For the latest version of my bootdisk, I toyed with removing one fat table and halving the amount of files able to be stored in the root directory of ...
Summary: I have been using THE CLONE210 to clone a source copy protected 2HD floppy disk using a 2HD target. It is an OPERATION PROGRAM DISK (driver) used to ...
Summary: OK Check to make sure that the hard disk is set as a master device and is on the primary IDE channel (no 1). Set the cd-rom to slave, and place that...
Summary: Are those two also plugged into the surge protectors/UPS' that I am assuming you were describing above? They may very well be fried, however you shou...
Summary: I have a problem, the computer recognize my disk on the setup, but it doesn`t boot from the hard disk. So, i tried booting from a floppy disk, and whe...
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