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  • Sorry if not the right thread, but I have a prehistoric PC question - I'm seeing if an 80s Amstrad 1640 is working - when powering on it asks for a system disk, upon insertion there is a disk boot failure message - that's the floppy disk that's failing, not the hard drive, right? Assume it's trying to boot from the floppy....

  • Has yours definitely got a HD in it? Most didn't. I think you are correct, even with HD they still needed to boot from floppy. Is it those weird 3" disks?

    Might be worth checking if the mainboard battery is ok. I think the old Amstrads took AAs somewhere!

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