Re: Apple //e will not boot--Help

["Barry Davis" <bdavis1943@hotmail.com>]

Michael,

I was never able to get the DOS 3.3 to load again.  My ProDOS disk did give
me *****Unable to load Prodos***** after numerous attempts and only one
time.  Thanks for your help.  Barry

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
20030808140911.24129.00001208@mb-m16.aol.com">news:20030808140911.24129.00001208@mb-m16.aol.com...
> Barry Davis wrote:
>
> >I recently purchased an Apple //e (A2S2064 with an extended 80-column
card)
> >and I am not able to boot the machine.  I have tried two different
> >controller cards (655-0101-B) with two 5.25 apple drives (A9M0107) and a
> >duodisk drive (A9M0108) in all different combinations.  I have tried
Apple
> >Presents, DOS 3.3 System Master, and the ProDOS User's Disk.  Several
times
> >in booting the DOS 3.3 disk, it partially loaded and then stopped when
> >trying to bload "loader.obj0" followed with a I/O Error.  But for the
most
> >part the drives just spin away with only the Apple //e on the screen.  I
> >have cleaned the cards' contacts and tried slot 5 and 7, but to no avail.
>
> Although it may seem unlikely, you have a small enough sample
> of disks and drives that it may simply be that none of one or the
> other is working properly.  If all the disks have been stored together,
> they may all be suffering from similar degradation.
>
> The good news is that if it _is_ the disk(s), the fact that your
> DOS 3.3 disk is at least booting DOS--though unable to reliably
> load part of the startup application--you can use it to initialize
> new disks, and to copy whatever is readable on DOS disks to them.
>
> Simply press ctrl-C during the boot, and DOS will stop after loading
> at the Applesoft prompt "]".  Then remove the boot disk and insert
> a blank (or disposable) disk and type "INIT HELLO".  This will
> create a newly-formatted DOS 3.3 disk which should now boot,
> read, and write reliably.  (If it does not, then the drive you used
> is suspect.)
>
> While you are at the Applesoft prompt, you may be able to run
> COPYA from the DOS 3.3 Master and format and/or copy disks
> (of any operating system) to new disks for use, if they can be
> read.
>
> -michael
>
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