Re: Floppy Disk Failure To Read HD Disks

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From: Neil Barker
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 00:00

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In article: <829660187snz@microvst.demon.co.uk>  "Anthony R. Gold" 
<tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Try formatting in 720k and 1.44M.  If the 720k works and not the 
> 1.44M, perhaps you don't have a 1.44M drive in there.  Do you have a 
> handbook with specs?

Also, have a look at the data connector ribbon cable to the drive. It 
wouldn't be the first time that I'd taken my PC case off, put it back on 
and unknowingly caught the connector, slightly pulling one end out. It 
still worked, but wouldn't recognise HD disks....

-- 
Neil Barker : neil@nbarker.demon.co.uk
Birmingham, England.

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