Re: Help with disk ][

[p035631b@pb.seflin.org (Joe Cairnes)]

There could be any of several things wrong.  Fortunately many are easily 
corrected.  I have been repairing my drives for a decade.

Find a computer repair book, perhaps in a public library, and have fun 
learning about what is inside them.  I think you will enjoy digging into 
the machine for a drive repair.


 Vince Briel (vbriel@telocity.com) wrote:
: UPDATE:  I tried brand new DD disks and still have same problem.  I believe
: this is a bad drive.  Anybody know of a good way to repair?

: "Vince Briel" <vbriel@telocity.com> wrote in message
: news:KKCt6.4$A2.221@newsrump.sjc.telocity.net...
: > I have an apple 2e with disk 2 interface card and disk 2 drive. I can boot
: > to dos 3.3 with master but I cant init any disks!  I had a hard time
: finding
: > dd 5.25 disks so I had to buy old.  I can load software off of the system
: > master disk, but i get an I/O error message when I try and format. Is this
: a
: > bad drive or bad disks?
: >
: > vbriel@telocity.com
: >
: >



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