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From: johnsonc@topaz.ucq.edu.au (Immortality is not from the long time you live but what you achieve in the time you have....)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: External floppy problems and a Lurking Horror....
Message-ID: <6252@topaz.ucq.edu.au>
Date: 31 Jul 90 12:56:32 GMT
Organization: University College of Central Queensland, Australia
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Does anyone out there have trouble when booting with an external 
floppy drive?  I'm passing this on from my father who's had the trouble.

When he boots with the external drive on and with a disk in it,
numerous things sometimes happen (if it is un-write protected):

  a) Files can be corrupt.
  b) Disks can lose EVERY file.
  c) You can try reading the directory but it gives an error (data on 
     disk may be damaged) and when you say CANCEL you get it.  But this
     only works once in a blue moon.  Other times you get a blank window
     for the directory.

We thought there might have been a virus on but our virus killers didn't
find any.  Does anyone out there know about any such thing happening????

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But my little question is, "Does anyone have LURKING HORROR for the ST?"

I played some of it on a friend's ST but he's moved off and sold it without
telling me (some friend).  Can anyone help with it?

Regards.