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From: bank@lea.ncsu.edu (Dave The DM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: Error message when booting PS/2 30 - msg. 163.
Message-ID: <1990Aug16.015853.4554@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 16 Aug 90 01:58:53 GMT
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In article <26055@bellcore.bellcore.com> wind@rruxi.bae.bellcore.com (Wind Chen) writes:
>Msg. 163 means that floppy disk driver is not power on.
>
>2 lost allocation units found in 2 chains, which means you need to run "chkdsk /F" to fix it, ref. your DOS menual.

   Yikes. He's right. 163 is a floppy problem. 162 is the error

code when the setup/configuration information is missing.

   Sorry 'bout that.

                                                    Dave th DM