[Floppertalk] [Fwd: Flopper]

jleyda floppertalk@oldskool.org
Tue, 6 Feb 2001 08:23:13 -0700


Sounds to me like a bad diskette.  
I'd try booting up the computer @ the school lab into DOS, format a disk
with it, then run install.  

It's also possible that there's some kind of virus protection going on with
these computers, either in the BIOS or as installed software.  The install
program does indeed do some virus like behavior: it takes the boot sector,
moves it to the end of the disk and then writes a new one.  

-jeff!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Leonard [mailto:trixter@oldskool.org]
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 7:27 PM
> To: floppertalk@oldskool.org
> Subject: [Floppertalk] [Fwd: Flopper]
> 
> 
> Anyone willing to help him?  I'm still setting up my 
> computers at home...
> 
> Kevin Carnes wrote:
> > 
> > Hey, I'm trying to install Flopper on one of the computer 
> in the school
> > lab, but it can't read the vectors it wrote to the disk.  I 
> was going to
> > give you a link to the disk image it made, but even the 
> DISK2IMG program
> > can't read the disk.  Any suggestions?  It looks like the 
> computers are
> > Dell OptiPlex G110s with Pentium IIIs.  Let me know if I 
> can be of any
> > more help.
> > 
> > Great OldSkool site!
> > Kevin Carnes
> 
> 
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