Re: Apple IIe Boot Disks

[Doug Browning <wpg750@mb.imag.net>]

It sound like you have a hardware problem, since you said you can't even boot
from dos3.3 disks (which are practically always bootable). unlike ProDOS,
dos3.3 copies itself to every formatted disk in the boot sector.

Kevin wrote:

> I have been given an Apple IIe with dual drives.  I had diskettes for both
> ProDos and Dos 3.3.  Neither of these disks will boot.  Once in a while the
> ProDos disk will give the error:
>     ***** UNABLE TO LOAD PRODOS ****
>
> I believe that the diskettes are bad, but do not have any other disks to
> boot from and look at these.
>
> Any help or a source for bootable diskettes would be appreciated.
>
> Kevin



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