Next message: Brian Durant: "Re(2): [WinMac] Mac floppies on IBM Aptiva."
There is a version of Apples File Exchange control panel that will screw up
PC floppies. It came with one of the later 7 series Mac OS's. Do you happen
to be running System 7.5.5 on your PB 1400?
on 5/27/2000 9:39 AM, Brian Durant wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Can anyone tell me why I can't get Mac floppies or DOS floppies to work
> on an IBM Aptiva, when I have DataViz MacOpener and/or MacDrive 98
> installed? Regardless of whether I have formatted in DOS or Mac on the
> IBM, when I replace it in the Aptiva after the floppy being used on my
> Mac (PB 1400)? I can do a DOS dir for a DOS floppy, the file is found and
> then all of a sudden, I get the message that the floppy is unreadable
> "Abort, Fail, Retry". In Win 98 SE (UK) I never get access to the disk,
> but am told that it is unreadable because of (sector 0) being unavailable
> or non-existant. Any help is deeply appreciated.
--
Nick Scalise
nicks@radiks.net
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