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Operating System / unreadable error, floppy drive 4400/200
February 04, 2009, 06:37 |
ahh...I get it. Because the alignment is probably out, it refuses to read other floppies, but is it still able to write and read its own. Makes sense. Thanks for the reply. |
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Operating System / unreadable error, floppy drive 4400/200
February 04, 2009, 01:54 |
Hi Bill, thanks for replying. You are most likely right, the only thing I find odd is that it can format a floppy and subsequently, always seem to read THAT back. It seems like it is more a software problem than a mechanical one. I thought there might be some missing drivers. I will clean it out though and see what that does. If worst comes to worst it won't be a big problem to get a new one. Cheers. |
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Operating System / unreadable error, floppy drive 4400/200
February 03, 2009, 08:09 |
I'm not sure this is the place for this question so forgive me if it isn't, but I have a newly purchased 4400/200 computer I am trying to install some old software on. Unfortunately every floppy I put in it gets the same message: "this disk is unreadable by this macintosh, do you want to initialize this disc". I have searched around extensively and have found several solutions as far as CD-Rom errors of the same nature are concerned (almost always extensions missing or conflicting it seems), but I have found none about the floppy. I have tried formatting a disk and then loading that in and it works fine, so I don't think it is the drive itself. I have re-installed the OS from the original disk (7.5.3) as well as upgraded to 7.6.1 and am still getting the same error. As the stuff I am trying to access is the reason I bought the machine in the first place ($50.00 so hardly a real problem if I can't solve it) I'd really like to get this figured out. Right now I am taking very convoluted steps to get info into the machine (reading the floppies on an old PC with software that reads mac disks), burning a mac CD that won't open up into the 4400/200 (another related problem, but one at a time right now) but will in my G5. From there I burn an ISO 9600 disk that WILL work on the 4400, and from there I install. That works but I have so much stuff on floppies and disks that apparently won't work I don't really want to go that route each time. Surely there must be a simpler more obvious solution? Anybody? |
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New Member Welcome / Hello from Ottawa
February 03, 2009, 07:05 |
Hi. I am a composer and a long-time mac user. Originally I owned an Atari 1040 (still do in fact) and used that until my monitor caught on fire. That was around 1996 so I jumped over to the Mac and I haven't looked back. Currently I run a G5 8-core (a few PC laptops as well), but I usually hang on to my old gear. My '96 era 9500 died a few months ago, so I recently bought a used 4400/200. I did a clean re-install of 7.5.3 and upgraded to 7.6.1 and have pretty much re-created the work place I had back then. I've been lurking on this forum for a while and I finally decided that I should introduce myself, especially as I have several questions I need answered! |
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