Emax

Hello,

When I power up my Emax II, I get a flashing "Disk not formatted!". Same thing with disk in drive. 
Any ideas anyone? 

Thanks.

Ya Mon........
Try cleaning the drive with an office supply store kit...........about 10 bucks.
I had one doing the same thing and the drive was just so dirty, it was blaming the disk.
After cleaning, it booted normally and sent me a thank you card.
OK, seriously, it's worth a shot and you will be able to use the cleaning disk again.
Good luck,
Dave

--- On Thu, 6/18/09, George <trickstar303@...> wrote:

From: George <trickstar303@...>
Subject: [emax] "Disk Not Formatted" Error
To: emax@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 7:01 PM











    
            
            


      
      Hello,



When I power up my Emax II, I get a flashing "Disk not formatted!". Same thing with disk in drive. 

Any ideas anyone? 



Thanks.




 

      

    
    
	
	 
	
	








	


	
	

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I'm assuming it is a known formatted disk otherwise the answer would be obvious... format the disk and install the OS using EMXP.  For what it's worth, any pc floppy will work if you find out that the drive is bad.  You just need to change the ID to DS0 instead of DS1 (PC standard).

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "evy_newt" <evy_newt@...> wrote:
What type of PC floppy should I look for? I think I have an older pc floppy laying around, but I don't think that one has any jumpers to set any ID...?

Thanks.



> I'm assuming it is a known formatted disk otherwise the answer would be obvious... format the disk and install the OS using EMXP.  For what it's worth, any pc floppy will work if you find out that the drive is bad.  You just need to change the ID to DS0 instead of DS1 (PC standard).
>

Most floppy drives have a DS select jumper that's solder bridged.  Look for that and de-solder it.  Solder the correct bridge and you should be good to go.  Of course a jumpered drive is way easier, but people want too much for them most of the time.  I lucked out and found one at a thrift shop for 90 cents :)

Good luck!