Floppy Disk/Loading OS problems

Hey everyone...

I'm a long-time MPC 2000 user, I have 2 that I bought when they were released.

I'm running both on the 1.72 OS, and lately more and more, I've been getting a "READ DISK ERROR" or something along those lines, when I start up the machine.

Is there a way to bypass the floppy drive to load the OS? I remember years ago hearing about a way to permanently load the OS into the MPC, or another way where the OS is loaded off of the ZIP drive.

Is anyone familiar with this? If I'm getting those warnings more and more via the floppy, are my floppy drives just going? I've made a few spare disks of the OS, as it seems to help to use new ones from time to time.

Any help would be dope. Thanks.

I don't think you can do what your talking about with the 2000 Classic only the XL and the others can do that. It will always require the OS disk from you.

7 1 4 Beats wrote:I don't think you can do what your talking about with the 2000 Classic only the XL and the others can do that. It will always require the OS disk from you.

Really? I could've sworn I read about it being down with a classic 2000, but I could be wrong. Thanks for the tip, yo.

mnh2410 wrote:
You have to get the Rom for it but those are hard to find. It will allow you to save the OS internally inside the mpc2000. I forget the exact model/name but you will have a hard time trying to find it.

Now if your disk keep saying disk error then there is a possibility that your floppy disk is is no good or the actual drive is about to die.


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Ah, ok yeah...I think it had to do with the F-Rom, like you mentioned, when I heard about it.

I have a feeling the disk drives are about to die (or are dying slowly), as I'm always (seemingly) switching to use new floppys...damn.

for the heck of it, I just tried copying the OS to the Zip drive, and it works. When I start up the MPC, the OS now loads off of the zip drive. Cool.