Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By Eddie22 Sat Dec 17, 2022 5:07 pm
I recently purchased an MPC 2000 and it still has the original floppy drive which I want to keep. While I was first using it, it would sometimes say disk read error when attempting to launch the OS and then I would just keep reinserting the floppy until it loaded. Now it never boots and always says Disk Read Error. I've tried cleaning out the floppy drive, installing a new floppy drive and reseating the RAM all give the same result. Another thing to add is it used to say Disk Read Error pretty quickly but now it takes longer on the boot screen and then the error message appears. And when the error message was on screen and I would take out the disk, it would change to say "insert OS disk" then I would reinsert it and the error message would reappear. Now it just says disk read error no matter if the disk is in or out. Anyone got any ideas?
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By peterpiper Sun Dec 18, 2022 10:26 pm
You didn't say that you also tried another BootDisk.
Disk Read Error = either
* Bad FloppyDisk
or
* Dirty FloppyDrive
or
* Damaged FloppyDrive
or
* Damaged FloppyCable

peace