Re: Need Help

[tws <adoyson@nccn.net>]

There is a machine language call you can make to BOOT from the External
drive.  I saw it in a Nibble.



Julian Arevalo wrote:

>  Most Apple ][ disk were boot disks.I don't think that you can't boot
> from the external floppy drive.What I would do is buy a 5� disk
> cleanar. Put the disk in the floppy drive and turn the Apple on.Do
> this 2 to 3 times.Try your disks again. Al least you should get a
> different error.If not, maybe you could try those disks on another
> apple ][ (if possible, obviously...) Julian
> Arevaloj-jones@geocities.com
>
>       savage300@webtv.net escribi� en mensaje
>      <16538-35BA771F-107@newsd-141.iap.bryant.webtv.net>...Hi,
>      I got
>      an apple//c computer at a yard sale and have been slowly
>      adding on to it
>      thru e-bay. When I bought the computer it didn't have any
>      disks with it
>      so I bought some used ones over the internet. My problem now
>      is when I
>      insert a disk into the internal or external drive the
>      monitor keeps
>      saying" check disk drive" and nothing happens. When I first
>      turn it on
>      the power light lights and I hear a beep then the disk use
>      light comes
>      on and the drive motor spins then stops and the disk light
>      goes out and
>      then the message on the screen reads"check disk drive". Can
>      someone
>      please tel me what I'm doing wrong. By he way I have two
>      computers and
>      they both do the same thing. The software is the systems
>      utilities,apple
>      basic, apple at play and apple introduction so they are made
>      for this
>      computer. Could the disks be bad? Please help, Thanks Ray
>