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Post #5 by techknight
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That floppy drive seems like its doing what its supposed to. Its rejecting the disk because it cannot find a valid boot sector. 

Now, theres 2 things for this. 1, your not preparing the disk properly, which has to be tested in an emulator, or another machine to verify that. 

2: the track alignment is off on the drive itself. if the drives heads have ever been jammed before, or dropped, etc.. it can throw off the track alignment and it will cause this. You can try making an 800K boot disk, which is a little bit more impervious to track mis-alignment, but that requires another mac to do. 

For making a boot floppy, you cant really use DD or anything like that, unless you have a RAW valid blessed image. Or it wont work. Winimage will definitely not work unless it was an image file from a valid bootable HFS/MFS diskette. However you wouldnt be able to browse the file structure in winimage I dont think. 

In a windows box, you need to use HFVexplorer and then format the disk that way, and drag a blessed system folder onto it, Or, setup an emulation environment and map your diskette drive to the emulator. Format the disk within an emulated mac OS environment, and then use disk copy. 

The other option is for someone to post a DD RAW image from a diskette that was setup and bootable. That might work. Maybe... 

But, from what I see in the video, I dont really "see" any major faults with the drive itself, chances are, your not prepping your disks properly. 

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