problem booting games

Sly294 · 15 June 2006, 20:52

Hi all.

My problem is when i put in a floppy disk, it reads for a second and then continues to boot into WB (from HDD). I have tried keeping the 2 mouse buttons on a restart and disabled the 2 DF3 and DF4 (something like that) But when i reboot and it starts to load a floppy game it takes about 5 seconds and then says "not a DOS disk" and thats on all my floppy disks.
Anyone know a solution ? Oh i can load some games from WB but not all.. hence the reason why i want the floppy drives to be Priority and not the HDD (for awhile anyway).
TIA, Sly294

BippyM · 15 June 2006, 22:55

If it does this all the time (with different games) then the floppy might be knackered!

If it is only the same disk then it sounds like it has no bootblock or an invalid bootblock.. (If it turns out to be the floppy I will move the thread to prb.hardware)

Sly294 · 16 June 2006, 01:33

ok i took out the Floppy drive and cleaned it and it was working ok then it decided to go again... so problem solved !

15 June 2006, 20:52	#1
Sly294 Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Location: London Age: 46 Posts: 41	problem booting games Hi all. My problem is when i put in a floppy disk, it reads for a second and then continues to boot into WB (from HDD). I have tried keeping the 2 mouse buttons on a restart and disabled the 2 DF3 and DF4 (something like that) But when i reboot and it starts to load a floppy game it takes about 5 seconds and then says "not a DOS disk" and thats on all my floppy disks. Anyone know a solution ? Oh i can load some games from WB but not all.. hence the reason why i want the floppy drives to be Priority and not the HDD (for awhile anyway). TIA, Sly294

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15 June 2006, 22:55	#2
BippyM Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Derby, UK Age: 48 Posts: 9,355	If it does this all the time (with different games) then the floppy might be knackered! If it is only the same disk then it sounds like it has no bootblock or an invalid bootblock.. (If it turns out to be the floppy I will move the thread to prb.hardware)

16 June 2006, 01:33	#3
Sly294 Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Location: London Age: 46 Posts: 41	ok i took out the Floppy drive and cleaned it and it was working ok then it decided to go again... so problem solved !

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