Re: Problem with an Apple II C !!!

["Kakkaro" <kakkaro@libero.it>]

No only the 2% Work !!!!!



"Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> ha scritto nel messaggio
3bb27835@news.iprimus.com.au">news:3bb27835@news.iprimus.com.au...
> If I understand you correctly, you only have a problem with 2% of your
disks
> and 98% work OK.
> You could try cleaning the disk drive heads as Jason has suggested, but
> since you mention that the disks won't boot in the external drive (via
PR#7
> for older IIc's if I remember correctly) it seems more likely to me that
the
> disk is damaged. This is probably due to age.
>
> Since they are ProDOS disks you could try to use a disk utility such as
Copy
> II Plus to test the disk and individual files to see if some of the files
> are corrupted. If they are you may be able to rescue most of them by
copying
> the good files to another freshly formatted disk. If you are lucky it may
> only be the ProDOS sys file that is affected and you can get that from
> another disk.
>
> hope that helps,
>
> Mark
>
>
> Kakkaro <kakkaro@libero.it> wrote in message
> news:9ot470$3c7$1@nreadb.inwind.it...
> > In the last week I found that when I Put any disk in the drive I hear a
> > different sound (It's not the common sound!!!) and after sometime It
> doesn't
> > load anything, sometime It appers the written "Unable to Load PRODOS",
> with
> > only few Disk (2 %) It loads the initial Image but after It Stops !!! I
> try
> > to change the disk reader (drive) with the extern but It's the same
> Problem
> > so I think that It isn't a Driver Problem !?!
> >
> > Please HELP ME because I'm 19 and I have my apple since 1984 and I love
> its
> > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
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