🚀 go-pugleaf

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.

> 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.

> 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.