That was my thought, too. I tried to load a floppy
yesterday, but it just kept giiving me 'non-system disk or
drive error" messages. Then I looked at the label. It said
"2DD, Double Density." Which is the old style 720 kB disks.
All my new ones say "High Density."
I even have a lot of 360 k 5 1/4" floppies from my old
Zenith. They're a hell of a lot slower than the new types,
and 1/4 the capacity. At the time, they were "state of the
art."
Unfortunately, the art is advancing faster than the state.
I believe there is a way to get the newer 1.44 MB drives to
recognize the 720 KB format, but I don't know what it is.
Easiest way, of course, is to try one of each type. Unless
you already thought of that.
Steve Gaber
Oldsmar, FL
-----Original Message-----
From: Earl Truss <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
<[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, July 07, 2000 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] System wont boot
>I don't think you've said if the diskette drive you are
booting from is the
>5.25" or if it is a 3.5" drive. In either case, perhaps
with this old of a
>computer the diskette drive is low-density rather than high
density? I'm
>not at all sure how you would be able to tell ...
>
>
>>From: Raymond Busick <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion
List
>><[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] System wont boot
>>Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 11:10:23 -0500
>>
>>I made a boot disk but system still hangs. Let me walk you
thru the
>>problem:
>>
>>Turn the computer on, the disk drive flashes, so I know it
is booting from
>>Drive a, I get the message
>>Diskette drive 1 seek failure, invalid confg info, run
setup program
>>
>>I run the setup program, it says INCORRECT config data in
CMOS, setup will
>>attemp to correct and auto configure. It does this, cmos
files recognize
>>all
>>drives, etc, everything looks correct . I save, exit, but
still wont
>>boot...get same message...any ideas?
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > Was given a GATEWAY 486/33 in order for me to access
5.25 floppys. Cant
>>get
>> > the system to boot up, error message reads..." Non
system disk", it
>>thens
>> > jumps to BIOS setup, all settings are correct. I save
and reboot but get
>> > same error message...I thought it would boot with a DOS
SETUP disk or
>>maybe
>> > WINDOWS setup disk, thinking it had no OS installed.
Still no luck..is
>>there
>> > a particular type of boot disk I need that is unique to
GATEWAY to boot
>>up
>> > this system?
>
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