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Subject:	Re: Fail on Int 24
From:	Gary Kaucher <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Sat, 2 Sep 2000 21:42:29 -0400
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It was a bad floppy disk drive. Problem solved.

Gary

At 11:24 PM 8/31/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I just finished installing Word 6.0 on my PC (16 disks) and everything was
>working OK. So I inserted a floppy in Drive A: with a word97 converter file
>that I wanted to copy to a subdirectory on C: and it wouldn't copy it. When
>I tried to do it from DOS I got a message that said "Sector not found
>reading drive A, Fail on Int 24. I checked the cables and everything looked
>OK. Now I can't get it to boot at all. When I power up, the monitor gives
>me a dark grey screen, and eventually I get an intermittent long beep
>sound. Any ideas?
>
>Gary

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