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  • Laptop SATA/IDE etc helpA mate of mine has got a laptop, an Acer Extensa 5220, and he's asked me to put XP on it, as it currently has Vista, which he doesn't like (who does?…

    ... of them see the hard drive. :(



    drive controller.

    ... F6 code from a USB floppy drive, not the USB stick ... there is no USB floppy found, and ignores the ... stick, with the hard drive driver, and install XP ...
    ewgf ewgf March 2009 Chit chat
  • Laptop SATA/IDE etc helpA mate of mine has got a laptop, an Acer Extensa 5220, and he's asked me to put XP on it, as it currently has Vista, which he doesn't like (who does?…

    ... problem or recognising a SATA drive some years back without the ... of slipstreemed drivers or a floppy disk.
    [/QUOTE]

    floppy emulation, so that the first ... to the PC as a floppy drive. They are pretty rare these ...
    AndyC AndyC March 2009 Chit chat
  • Laptop SATA/IDE etc helpA mate of mine has got a laptop, an Acer Extensa 5220, and he's asked me to put XP on it, as it currently has Vista, which he doesn't like (who does?…

    ... a USB stick which does floppy emulation, so that the first ... to the PC as a floppy drive. They are pretty rare these ... my motherboard doing the USB Floppy emulation.
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk March 2009 Chit chat
  • Laptop SATA/IDE etc helpA mate of mine has got a laptop, an Acer Extensa 5220, and he's asked me to put XP on it, as it currently has Vista, which he doesn't like (who does?…

    ... of slipstreemed drivers or a floppy disk.
    .[/quote]
    ... well as from a USB floppy drive, though, wouldn't you? ... who actually owns a USB floppy drive? Floppy discs are the opposite ... only two possible uses for floppy discs nowadays; transferring data ...
    ewgf ewgf March 2009 Chit chat
  • Laptop SATA/IDE etc helpA mate of mine has got a laptop, an Acer Extensa 5220, and he's asked me to put XP on it, as it currently has Vista, which he doesn't like (who does?…

    ... well as from a USB floppy drive, though, wouldn't you? ... who actually owns a USB floppy drive? Floppy discs are the opposite of ... only two possible uses for floppy discs nowadays; transferring data ... read drivers from a second floppy drive if you have two ...
    AndyC AndyC March 2009 Chit chat
  • Amiga 600HDOk so I have an @*%#$&@*# Amiga 600HD (I shall avoid using the C word around here) and now a PSU. I have plugged it into my TV and it's telling me I …

    ... blank disk in the Amiga floppy drive), and transfer the stuff over ... even register in a PC floppy drive (not that I know of ...
    GreenCard GreenCard April 2009 Chit chat
  • Amiga 600HDOk so I have an @*%#$&@*# Amiga 600HD (I shall avoid using the C word around here) and now a PSU. I have plugged it into my TV and it's telling me I …

    ... blank disk in the Amiga floppy drive), and transfer the stuff ... even register in a PC floppy drive (not that I know ... you to attatch an Amiga floppy to the PC and ... if it was a PC floppy.

    Also, you ... write .adf files to floppy but I can't remember ...
    VincentAC VincentAC April 2009 Chit chat
  • Amiga 600HDOk so I have an @*%#$&@*# Amiga 600HD (I shall avoid using the C word around here) and now a PSU. I have plugged it into my TV and it's telling me I …

    ... .

    Connect any floppy drive to the Amiga (meaning you ... files to a real amiga floppy) - [url=http://amigakit.leamancomputing ... />
    Connect your Amiga floppy drive to the PC so you ... do the transfer to Amiga floppy direct (although to extract ...
    VincentAC VincentAC April 2009 Chit chat
  • If Money Was No Object - Would You Have Bought A SpectrumTruthfully, at the time you bought your first ZX Spectrum, would you have bought something different if money was no object. Don't get me wrong - I …

    ... ) or an Atari 800 with floppy drive.

    I traded my ...
    Kilby Kilby April 2009 Games
  • eBay - Plus D & ZX LPRINT III...A couple bits of hardware for sale... Both are untested due to lack of suitable printer/disk drive, but both when connected to a Spectrum allow it t…

    ... will work with a modern floppy drive you just need to attach ... the drive before the twist in the ...
    dekh dekh May 2009 Sales
  • Can a floppy disk wreck a disk drive?I'd been re-installing some old Apple Mac games so that I could back them up before the disks become unreadable (too late in some cases). After doing…

    ... it would boot from a floppy OK, so I reckoned it ... disk now ... one more wrecked floppy drive.

    I'm now ... - into [b]any[/b] floppy disk drive if this sort of havoc ... - working, non-screeching - Mac HD floppy disk drives they don't ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2009 Chit chat
  • Can a floppy disk wreck a disk drive?I'd been re-installing some old Apple Mac games so that I could back them up before the disks become unreadable (too late in some cases). After doing…

    ... old floppies can wreck a floppy drive if dust or other debris ... surface of the floppy gets in contact with the floppy drive read heads ... it down to an old floppy drive.

    I've ... way of knackering a floppy drive (scroll down to Floppy Disk Hell):
    Vampyre Vampyre May 2009 Chit chat
  • Can a floppy disk wreck a disk drive?I'd been re-installing some old Apple Mac games so that I could back them up before the disks become unreadable (too late in some cases). After doing…

    ... putting it in a drive. As I mentioned, I ... is thus damaging the drive's mechanism, which wouldn ... the plastic casing of the floppy disk.

    ... I've been using floppy disks for decades and never ... a replacement Mac Performa floppy drive on eBay for six ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2009 Chit chat
  • Help loading OPUS data block ?Hi folks, A while back I obtained a Daton Software Card Games compilation which will be in the next Vault update: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/inf…

    ... that emulates any kind of floppy drive should support (E)DSK. Maybe ...
    John Elliott John Elliott May 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Help loading OPUS data block ?Hi folks, A while back I obtained a Daton Software Card Games compilation which will be in the next Vault update: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/inf…

    ... that emulates any kind of floppy drive should support (E)DSK. Maybe ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker May 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Help loading OPUS data block ?Hi folks, A while back I obtained a Daton Software Card Games compilation which will be in the next Vault update: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/inf…

    ... intended for is an (emulated) floppy drive, and it shouldn't matter ... by what interface that drive is connected to the emulated ...
    John Elliott John Elliott May 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Help loading OPUS data block ?Hi folks, A while back I obtained a Daton Software Card Games compilation which will be in the next Vault update: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/inf…

    ... intended for is an (emulated) floppy drive, and it shouldn't matter ... by what interface that drive is connected to the ... br />
    When just the floppy drive should be emulated, this in ... get there by programming the Floppy Disk Controller chip, of which ...
    roko roko May 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Help loading OPUS data block ?Hi folks, A while back I obtained a Daton Software Card Games compilation which will be in the next Vault update: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/inf…

    ... =roko;353326]When just the floppy drive should be emulated, this in ... get there by programming the Floppy Disk Controller chip, of which ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall May 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Help loading OPUS data block ?Hi folks, A while back I obtained a Daton Software Card Games compilation which will be in the next Vault update: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/inf…

    ... of chips that control the floppy drive as an FDC that uses ...
    roko roko May 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What we gotI moved house and I have setup my Spectrum gear, I was looking at all that I have and was thinking what else do others have in there collection? Ok …

    ... with Interface 1 and micro-drive
    Speccy + with interface 2 ... with 512k expansion and double-floppy drive

    Fergerson tape-deck ...
    Graz Graz May 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Transferring +3 Disk Image from PC to real +3Is there a way to do this without physically connecting the +3 disk drive to the PC? Something like a Speccy version of the "Xfer in C" utility for…

    ... doesn't have a 3" floppy drive). And writing 40-track discs ... the 9512's 80-track drive... ick.

    (This would ... against cannibalising the PCW's floppy drive and putting it in the ...
    John Elliott John Elliott June 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Transferring +3 Disk Image from PC to real +3Is there a way to do this without physically connecting the +3 disk drive to the PC? Something like a Speccy version of the "Xfer in C" utility for…

    ... 's got a 3.5" floppy drive, but it doesn't let ... the +3 version to support drive T: (Tape). I never got ...
    John Elliott John Elliott June 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Rom upgrade(s) for the Humble spectrum +2 (not 2a or 2b)Hello there my fellow forum chummies, I was thinking today, after reading all this lovely rom burnery stuff, is there a way I could update the ROM o…

    ... +IDE interface contain also HD floppy drive and same ide ports as ... connect to divide via LS120 drive.
    velesoft velesoft June 2009 Hardware
  • The point of fixing a QLHi All Recently picked up an old QL that was in pieces, all the screws are missing and the keyboard membrane is shot, but it does work. Gave the me…

    ... the memory and floppy drive expansion card with a floppy to go with ...
    beanz beanz June 2009 Hardware
  • Making an external 3" USB floppy drive ?I came across an old 3" floppy drive, and I got the idea of making it into an external USB drive to write +3 images onto from my PC. Can I use the …

    ... came across an old 3" floppy drive, and I got the idea ... it into an external USB drive to write +3 images onto ... a modern external 3,5" drive for this ?[/QUOTE]

    guesser guesser July 2009 Hardware
  • Making an external 3" USB floppy drive ?I came across an old 3" floppy drive, and I got the idea of making it into an external USB drive to write +3 images onto from my PC. Can I use the …

    ... across an old 3" floppy drive, and I got the ... into an external USB drive to write +3 images ... a modern external 3,5" drive for this ?[/QUOTE]
    ... that will interface with the drive in question.

    floppy-disk-drive-1-44MB-3-5 ...
    Zetr0 Zetr0 July 2009 Hardware
  • Making an external 3" USB floppy drive ?I came across an old 3" floppy drive, and I got the idea of making it into an external USB drive to write +3 images onto from my PC. Can I use the …

    ... micro controller to control the floppy drive. I reckon I should be ...
    guesser guesser July 2009 Hardware
  • Making an external 3" USB floppy drive ?I came across an old 3" floppy drive, and I got the idea of making it into an external USB drive to write +3 images onto from my PC. Can I use the …

    ... , since getting a 3,5" drive to work with the +3 ... tells you to set the floppy drive type to 360k in the ... bios for a 3" drive. I've had no luck ... down to the 5.25" drive I was using too.
    guesser guesser July 2009 Hardware
  • Making an external 3" USB floppy drive ?I came across an old 3" floppy drive, and I got the idea of making it into an external USB drive to write +3 images onto from my PC. Can I use the …

    [QUOTE=Pilsener;365354]Guesser: Have you tried Omniflop with USB devices ?[/QUOTE]

    nope, but if my memory serves me correctly I couldn't even read a 720k disk in my dad's usb floppy drive.
    guesser guesser July 2009 Hardware
  • ANN: ResiDOS v2.25 and +3e ROMS v1.38 releasedA major new release of ResiDOS, v2.25, is now available! The most important new features are commands and functions allowing new extended streams an…

    ... tries to load "Disk" from drive "C" after its failed on ... Drive "A"?[/QUOTE]

    It ... "C:" to be the default drive. The loader tries the following ... sector on internal floppy drive[*]"DISK" program on default drive (which you can ...
    glancaster glancaster July 2009 Hardware
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