hi!
I have a mostly working T1200, but i can't get it to boot from floppy. I know it reads because when I boot from the HDD I can read disks.
I have made boot disk from disk image on an authentic 720K floppy. but when I try to get the machine to boot it keeps saying "non-system disk".
any suggests?
I hope this question doesn't seem silly: how did you exactly make the boot disk?
Sometimes the problem comes from there.
There are, for example, specific programs like RawWrite to create bootable floppy disks.
The T1200 is trying to boot from the floppy drive as it's showing the non system disk error and the drive works/disk is readable once the laptop boots; this would imply to me that the boot disk isn't bootable, or isn't compatible with the laptop.
Which boot disk image are you writing to the boot floppy?
The early Toshiba laptops use a proprietary floppy drive (well propriatary connector), they also use rubber belts which are prone to stretching with age. If you haven't replaced the belt yet it may be the cause (although unlikely as the drive reads fine once booted)
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