I've been trying to troubleshoot my duo 2300 with a sad Mac message that indicates a software problem (co-processor divides by zero). After picking up a floppy disk drive and downloading boot floppies for 8.1, 8.0, and 7.6 I thought I was on my way to reformating my disk. However, I detoured briefly to check the contents of my hard drive after booting up with a 7.6 boot floopy before trying to initialize the hard drive with hard drive setup, and the ++!& computer froze. Rebooting the computer gives me a message of disk error and restart. I've tried with several floppies and get the same message. After using the floppy one time it becomes a dead piece of plastic. When I reinsert the boot floppy in my desktop to reformat it, my desktop icons disappear. Arrgh. I'm spending way too many hours playing around trying to recusitate my duo and avoiding productive labor. I suppose it's a moot point because I just won a hard drive from ebay that I'll install when it gets here. I've got several duo manuals in PDF format, so I'll be careful not to snap the tabs and I'll also use my anti-static wrist band. The seller assured me that the drive will have an OS on it.
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