riacmt@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Carol Miller-Tutzauer) (11/03/90)
I'm hoping someone on this net can help me. My problem is as follows: I have several diskettes that contain wordperfect documents that were created and saved at another university (Penn St) on an IBM PS/2 model 55. The diskettes (there are 4 or so) are high density. I am unable to read the disks on my high density drive on my Zenith 286 machine. According to the person who gave me these diskettes, he was unable to read them on PS/2 model 35's there at Penn State but WAS able to read them on the model 55 in his office (he is the one who created the docs). Through a series of questions, it appears that the PS/2 model 35 read problems are due to the fact that those machines had LOW density drives and obviously cannot read HD disks. But why can't MY high density drive not read the documents saved to the high density diskettes using the PS/2 model 55? Time is of the essence; these documents are important. All back-up copies were created on the same machine and so I can't read any of them. When I tried to display the directory using the DOS DIR command, I got the old "abort, retry, fail" message. From within wordperfect, I got "Disk error 23...Retry or Cancel?" message. I tried to do a disk test with Norton utilities and got a message saying something like "cannot read directory." What's going on and what can I do? Please respond by e-mail as I don't get on this list often. Carol Bitnet: RIACMT@UBVMS Internet: RIACMT@UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU