Anand wrote:
> Hi everybody, > > My friend has a Plus, no hard drive, two floppy drives, was running > 6.0.7. It has started rejecting the system floppy by displaying a mac > with an x over it, ejecting the floppy then displaying a mac with a > question mark. Tried system floppy in both drives. no go. Copied disk > and tried both drives, no go. Downloaded the first of four 6.0.8 DD > disk images from Apple. Tried both drives, no go. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > > Anand > An "X" is the Macs way of telling you there's no readable boot sector on the disk, or the floppy drive is bad or dusty. When you copie the disk image of 6.0.8 did you convert it with Stuffit and DiskCopy 6.33? Otherwise, look to bad or dirty drives. Jeff -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:compact.macs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:compact.macs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:compact.macs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
