johnr@praxis.co.uk (John Richards) (06/04/90)
A friend has an old PC compatible, an NEC APC III. I think it's an 8086
with a 10MB disc. It was running MS-DOS 2.11, but now it isn't because
something's got screwed and it hangs on reset after printing two lines
identifying the operating system.
I tried booting from floppy instead. However, the machine just momentarily
accesses the floppy (perhaps just parking the heads) before switching to
the hard disc. There seems no way of getting it to boot off the floppy.
Any suggestions? No good suggesting reading the manual - he hasn't got one.
Unless I can get it booted from floppy, I can't find out what's wrong with
the hard disc.
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John Richards