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Rod Speed wrote:

> budgie <budgie@NOWHERE.cantech.net.au> wrote in
> message news:3732df96.3443248@news.cantech.net.au...
>
> > The strangest thing has just happened to my kids' '486 ......
>
> > Boot priority is set to A; C: and when a non-bootable
> > floppy is left in at bootup, the error message "Drive not
> > ready or non-system disk" etc etc appears in FRENCH.
>
> That's because a non system floppy basically has that error
> message string in the boot sector, with a tiny bit of code that
> does nothing but put it on the screen when you attempt to boot
> it. So its just a floppy thats somehow got that in the boot sector.
>
> You can see that by inspecting the boot sector of various non
> bootable floppys with any sector editor etc like Norton's DiskEdit.
>

Thing is, I wonder why the disks are formatted in French.. I usually use
cheap Gestetner or Nashuatec etc etc from Big W :-)

>
> > This is new!  While I understand enough
> > French to get by on, I'd like it back in English.
>
> Its a conspiracy by the frogs to rule the world. They're royally
> pissed off about the fact that english has won and french is dead.
>

AHA! Now Rod seems to have hit on something :-)

>
> > Country code etc settings are fine, unaltered.  McAfee VirusScan
> > gives machine a clean bill of health.  No file on the entire machine
> > contains these French words.  It isn't a BIOS option either (AMI).
>
> > Any constructive suggestions will be welcome.
>
> Just reformat the floppy.
>
> > "Pierre"
>
> Leave those poor frogs alone, they need their legs.

Thanks Rod, It all makes sense now :-)

Ben.


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