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Re: HD errors/issues after SE upgrade followed by Plus OS

2014-07-01 by xeelox@...

>>So what happens if you change that OS on the image to a non-Plus OS?

WARNING
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EMXP only allows the installation of the Emax Plus OS
on an EMAX-I HD/CD Image. Please select the Plus OS.
Press any key to continue...

This happens w/ versions 2.11.3 and 3.00. Did older EMXP versions allow different OS for HD images?

I guess I could pull my last fully working drive and do a backup image in EMXP, but I'm still a tad reluctant to mess w/ my last drive until I know whether there's something I'm doing that's causing these issues.

>>I have never seen the SE update go weird, but maybe yours has and needs redone….
Was thinking along those lines last night. Bad or failed eprom update? FWIW 2 of my keyboards were SE from the factory and I can't boot the drives in those either, but it did all start the day I tried to update a non SE kybd to SE and then to Plus. Could a botched SE upgrade be to blame for failed HD formats, essentially rendering those drives unreadable/unusable by Emax?

- Jim


---In emax@yahoogroups.com, <djtbs1@...> wrote :

So what happens if you change that OS on the image to a non-Plus OS?

I have never seen the SE update go weird, but maybe yours has and needs redone….

-T

On Jun 30, 2014, at 9:10 PM, xeelox@... [emax] wrote:

Ok, I figured out how to add an OS to an HD image in EMXP. So I made an image w/ the plus OS but it would not boot straight from the HD.


Every once in a while, booting from the floppy with the hard drive connected, it did get past the "Just a moment..." message and finally finish loading the OS from floppy, though it took a long time. Sadly I still get the "HD Catalog Error" whenever I attempt do do anything that requires the hard disk. But it is an interesting change in behavior. It's a small clue, though I don't know what to make of it yet.

Jim


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