Amstrad PPC640

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Sat Apr 27 10:21:30 2002

> > Hello my name is Colin from (UK) i also have just got an Amstrad
> > ppc640 just
> > for messing around on.... but it doesn't have any operating
> > system on it and
> > won't recognise any disks as when i boot it up it always says
> > invalid system
> > disk... i am using both 720k diskettes and have tried 1.44meg and tried
> > putting all dos versions and windows 95 onto it.... any advice
> > would be most
> > grateful....
> Sounds very like a hardware fault: most likely the floppy drive - possibly
> the controller.

I heard a while back from another fellow with the same description of a
problem. In HIS case, it was because the target machine (a generic
laptop) used 720K diskettes, and although he was "using 720K diskettes",
his computer on which he was creating those "720K" diskettes was
formatting them 1.4M Once he tried with a diskette that was actually
FORMATTED 720K, it worked.
Received on Sat Apr 27 2002 - 10:21:30 BST