Not sure if this belongs here, but I’m trying to setup a XT-CF-lite rev. 2 for my Compaq Portable, and since I have no 360kb disks I’m doing it on my 486. Anyways, when it tries to boot from C: it says, “Non-system disk or disk error”. However, if …
I bought a non-booting Olivetti M300-02E recently. It has an issue with the drives, both floppy and hdd. The floppy is an Epson SMD-1000. The HDD is a WD Caviar 2120 125mb unit. On bootstrapping, after first diagnostics the HDD gives a disk error. I don't …
I have a 5160 I'm busy restoring with a strange issue.
It works 100% fine with its on-board 256k ram. If I install any of my 3 known good memory expansion cards it gives me a non system disk error on the A and C drives.
It counts up the extra ram fine wit …
Hi! I'm a newbie here, just getting into retro PC builds. I recently acquired a Gateway 2000 486DX4/100 machine. It has a WD Caviar 2340 Intelligent AT drive, a NEC CD-260 CD-ROM drive, and this odd little IDE controller by Symphony (photo of an identic …
I just cleaned up and recapped the HIC-1 on this MSX system for a friend of mine. Just wondering if anyone has seen an issue with one of these where the floppy drive (which is a re-belted Mitsumi D357B) won't boot from or read any 720k floppy disks. It wil …
Hello,I'm trying to use a Gotek Drive on an issue 7 Model B with an 8271 controller.I am seeing the drive working for the FIRST time it gets accessed, so power on then *CAT I get a directory. But then on the second *CAT you get "Disk Error" (with DFS 0.98 …
Hello, VCFED.
I have a Compaq Presario 7212. The system is fully functional, but I am unable to boot the system from the internal IDE.
I am using a CD to IDE adapter, 512MB. It works perfectly. Files read and write, installs DOS just fine. But it just won …
I am trying to fix an external Disk /// drive that gives a "Format error #21. Internal program error." Message when I try to format a diskette. When I format the diskette using the internal disk drive, the disk completes formatting with no errors. I've loo …
Hi Forum, Need your help please. I am restoring an 128d. Have the following issue with the internal 1571:1. boot into CP/M no problem2. read single sided disk in 128 and 64 mode no problem3. cannot format single sided disk in 64 mode or format doublesided …
