From: Blackepyon01@yahoo.ca   
      
   On Tuesday, 5 July 2022 at 05:15:17 UTC-7, Ron Lauzon wrote:   
   > PB> sounds like it's operating correctly. Do I need to clean the disk drive?    
   > PB> Do I need a different boot disk? If I add an external floppy drive can I    
   > PB> boot from that? Is my internal    
   > PB> floppy drive defective?    
   >    
   > Yes, you need to clean the disk drive Sadly, you needed to do that    
   > **before** you put the good boot disks in. There's a possibility that the    
   > disks have been damaged by grit in the drive.    
   >    
   > I don't know what drives are used for your floppy drives, but some of the    
   > early ones had belt driven drives. Over time, those belts turn into goo.    
   > The drive lights up and makes a sound, but won't work.   
   As far as I know, the EX can boot from any MS-DOS boot disk, so long as it's a   
   360K disk properly formatted with the appropriate system files. If you have a   
   CF-IDE type card installed, you can install any version of DOS (5.0 is less   
   memory intensive than    
   6.2, so I'd go with that instead). Likely, either the drive just needs   
   cleaning (IPA on a Q-tip usually works well enough), or if it happens to be   
   one with a belt, that belt might need replacing.   
      
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