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Ben Hinton <happy_ben@hotmail.com> wrote in
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> Rod Speed wrote
>> budgie <budgie@NOWHERE.cantech.net.au> wrote

>>> 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 :-)

Thats probably how it happened, the floppys were bought preformatted
and he happened to get floppys that were intended for the frogs.

You do ocassionally see that happen with the printing on the box etc.