[Floppertalk] [Fwd: Flopper]
Jim Leonard
floppertalk@oldskool.org
Tue, 6 Feb 2001 10:31:34 -0600
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 08:23:13AM -0700, jleyda wrote:
> 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.
...and, like a moron, I can't get this reply to him because I stripped
the headers and then deleted the original. Doh!
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