why can't my floppy boot?

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Claus Igeltupf

Since a few days my floppy drive no longer boots from floppy disk while it
still can perfectly read, write, and format floppy disks.

BIOS, of course, wasn't changed AND is still listing floppy disk as boot
device 0.
I even changed the floppy controller cable as well as the complete drive.

The best result I can get is the little noise (click-clack) when the
floppy's read head is moved to cyl 0 initially.
As already said, reading, writing, and formating is still working well with
older as well as new formated floppies.

Does anyone have an idea what's going wrong?

Thanks,
ci
 
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badgolferman

Claus said:
Since a few days my floppy drive no longer boots from floppy disk
while it still can perfectly read, write, and format floppy disks.

BIOS, of course, wasn't changed AND is still listing floppy disk as
boot device 0. I even changed the floppy controller cable as well as
the complete drive.

The best result I can get is the little noise (click-clack) when the
floppy's read head is moved to cyl 0 initially. As already said,
reading, writing, and formating is still working well with older as
well as new formated floppies.

Does anyone have an idea what's going wrong?

Thanks,
ci

Maybe your floppy disk is no longer bootable. Have you tried it on
another machine?
 
C

CBFalconer

Claus said:
Since a few days my floppy drive no longer boots from floppy disk
while it still can perfectly read, write, and format floppy disks.

BIOS, of course, wasn't changed AND is still listing floppy disk
as boot device 0. I even changed the floppy controller cable as
well as the complete drive.

The best result I can get is the little noise (click-clack) when
the floppy's read head is moved to cyl 0 initially. As already
said, reading, writing, and formating is still working well with
older as well as new formated floppies.

Does anyone have an idea what's going wrong?

Do the floppies have a bootable system on them? This includes a
suitable boot sector, all of which are not needed on normal data
floppies.

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