Geoff
thanks for the advice, - only one floppy drive fitted.

I'll dig out a PC floppy drive and give that a go at the weekend

regards Graham

--- In tatung_einstein@..., "geoff" <geoff@...> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
>