Hi,

Does your einstien have two drives? are you using the correct one?
(sorry if that seems like a stupid question but I had to ask.

The drive could be dead but they are fairly robust. It's normally the
disks. DON'T replace the drives with ones from the Amstrad I believe
the wiring is different. The einstein's 3" drives follow the same
standard as normal PC 3.5" ones, and can in fact be replaced with 3.5"
drives (both 760k and 1.44M).

You can find a some more information on chris' site
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/retrocomputer/download.htm#dsk
about transfering files to the einstein and recreating a system disk
(including the MOS command needed to transfer the files using Steve
Ruddy's software.) it should work with 1.44M drives too but I haven't
tested it.

I'll get quick a mos guide posted here soon.

regards,
Geoff

--- In tatung_einstein@..., "grez1m" <grez1m@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the advice
> I get the MOS screen with no disc in, but don't have a list of
> commannds to use at this point.
> If I insert a disk and press ctrl-break the drive accesses but comes
> back with a 'Bad Sector' error. This happens with all the discs that I
> have. (Watching the drive with the cover off shows the disc spinning
> but the heads not moving)
> I'm not sure if this is likely to be a duff disk drive or duff disks -
> any ideas?
> Can I fit an Amstrad 3" floppy drive, as I have a spare one of those.?
>
> any help gratefully received.
> Grezm
>