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Article #12Re: Floppy Drive Failure
From: petros
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:00
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Lars Bunch wrote: > > Hilary Glazer <ag510@lafn.org> wrote: > > : HELP ! When I try to read floppy a: or B: (do DIR ), I get this error: > > : Not ready A (or B) > : Abort, retry,fail? VOL has no label > > : Abort, retry,fail?Fail on int 24 > > It means the computer cant't read the floppy disk. It can happen with a > bad disk or drive, but as you seem to be getting it with BOTH floppies, > you might have any of the following problems... > > 1) Ribbon cable has come loose. Check at the drives and at the controler > card. > > 2) CMOS is corrupted. As you turn on the computer you will be asked it > you want to enter a special set up program. The delete key or some > variation usually gets you into it. Make sure the CMOS values accurately > reflect what drives you have installed. Be careful when you change any > values here, especially the hard drive configuration. (Write it down > before you make any changes so you can change it back if necessary.) > > 3) YOur controller card has died. If the card is part of the mother > board, just find out how to disable the on board controler and buy a card > that plugs into an ISA expansion slot. Usually about $15 dollars. This > will probably control your IDE Hard drive as well. -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Lars jagatai Bunch > jagatai@primenet.com > Read the RANT-O-RAMA WEB PAGE at http://www.primenet.com/~jagatai/ > Rants, complaints, or just plain observations on life. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this is a test . please reply if possible
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,48f9b3d0c96b59ce X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: 107d03,48f9b3d0c96b59ce X-Google-Attributes: gid107d03,public X-Google-Thread: fafa5,48f9b3d0c96b59ce X-Google-Attributes: gidfafa5,public From: petros <pmar@groovy.gr> Subject: Re: Floppy Drive Failure Date: 1996/11/25 Message-ID: <329981BA.4FD6@groovy.gr> X-Deja-AN: 198496802 distribution: inet references: <1996Nov20.191152.22912@lafn.org> <570vr6$k18@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Unspecified Organisation mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.4dos,la.general,ca.general x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I; 16bit)