Moonferret
Experienced Member
Happy New Year!
I'm currently having a few problems with a Zenith Z-171 portable and I'm wondering if I need any special boot disks for it as I can't seem to get it to boot correctly from a standard MSDOS disk. Boot starts normally but after a few seconds the drive starts making a clunking noise as if its struggling to read a sector. Left long enough, it does get to a DOS prompt but the disk keeps spinning with the drive door locked. I can switch to drive B but then have a similar problem on that drive.
I've tried swapping the floppy drives over and also tried another known good drive with the same results. Also tried different DOS versions (3.3, 5.0 and 6.22)
Cheers,
Dave
I'm currently having a few problems with a Zenith Z-171 portable and I'm wondering if I need any special boot disks for it as I can't seem to get it to boot correctly from a standard MSDOS disk. Boot starts normally but after a few seconds the drive starts making a clunking noise as if its struggling to read a sector. Left long enough, it does get to a DOS prompt but the disk keeps spinning with the drive door locked. I can switch to drive B but then have a similar problem on that drive.
I've tried swapping the floppy drives over and also tried another known good drive with the same results. Also tried different DOS versions (3.3, 5.0 and 6.22)
Cheers,
Dave