Hello my name
is Colin from (UK) i also have just got an Amstrad
ppc640 just
for messing around on.... but it doesn't have any operating
system on it and
won't recognise any disks as when i boot it up it always says
invalid system
disk... i am using both 720k diskettes and have tried 1.44meg and tried
putting all dos versions and windows 95 onto it.... any advice
would be most
grateful....
Sounds very like a hardware fault: most likely the floppy drive -
possibly
the controller.
I heard a while back from another fellow with the same description of a
problem. In HIS case, it was because the target machine (a generic
laptop) used 720K diskettes, and although he was "using 720K diskettes",
his computer on which he was creating those "720K" diskettes was
formatting them 1.4M Once he tried with a diskette that was actually
FORMATTED 720K, it worked.