Haemogoblin
Experienced Member
Hey guys
So i think I finally found a copy of the Sharp Diagnostic disk but I've got a slight problem. When I first became the proud owner of this machine, the floppy drive didn't work and as a work around I installed a 3.5" floppy drive. It works fine and it's a lot easier to swap data between machines with the 1.44mb disks.
My issue is that the diagnostic disk image is a 360kb floppy. I've used winimage to drag the contents over to a 3.5" floppy but when i run the disk, i just get a hung system with a blinking cursor in the top left corner.
If there are any fellow Sharp owners, I'd really like some advice. Do you boot off this disk or do you boot in to DOS and THEN run the software on the diagnostic disk?
I'm sick of this darn computer beeping every time i turn it on and reporting "configuration error"
So i think I finally found a copy of the Sharp Diagnostic disk but I've got a slight problem. When I first became the proud owner of this machine, the floppy drive didn't work and as a work around I installed a 3.5" floppy drive. It works fine and it's a lot easier to swap data between machines with the 1.44mb disks.
My issue is that the diagnostic disk image is a 360kb floppy. I've used winimage to drag the contents over to a 3.5" floppy but when i run the disk, i just get a hung system with a blinking cursor in the top left corner.
If there are any fellow Sharp owners, I'd really like some advice. Do you boot off this disk or do you boot in to DOS and THEN run the software on the diagnostic disk?
I'm sick of this darn computer beeping every time i turn it on and reporting "configuration error"