I have a Tandy 1000EX that's been in storage for over 5 years. I bought some Tandy MS-DOS 5.25" floppy disks from a seller on eBay. When I insert his newly made boot disk in the internal 5.25" drive and turn on the computer, instead of booting up itdisplays the message "Boot Failure". The disk drive light turns on and it sounds like it's operating correctly. Do I need to clean the disk drive? Do I need a different boot disk? If I add an external floppy drive can I boot from that? Is my internal
sounds like it's operating correctly. Do I need to clean the disk drive? Do I need a different boot disk? If I add an external floppy drive can I boot from that? Is my internal
floppy drive defective?
As far as I know, the EX can boot from any MS-DOS boot disk, so long as it's a 360K disk properly formatted with the appropriate system files. If you have a CF-IDE type card installed, you can install any version of DOS (5.0 is less memory intensive thansounds like it's operating correctly. Do I need to clean the disk drive? Do I need a different boot disk? If I add an external floppy drive can I boot from that? Is my internal
floppy drive defective?
Yes, you need to clean the disk drive Sadly, you needed to do that **before** you put the good boot disks in. There's a possibility that the disks have been damaged by grit in the drive.
I don't know what drives are used for your floppy drives, but some of the early ones had belt driven drives. Over time, those belts turn into goo.
The drive lights up and makes a sound, but won't work.
On Mon, 4 Jul 2022 11:16:32 -0700 (PDT), Paul Biasella <prb359@gmail.com> >declaimed the following:displays the message "Boot Failure". The disk drive light turns on and it sounds like it's operating correctly. Do I need to clean the disk drive? Do I need a different boot disk? If I add an external floppy drive can I boot from that? Is my internal
I have a Tandy 1000EX that's been in storage for over 5 years. I bought some Tandy MS-DOS 5.25" floppy disks from a seller on eBay. When I insert his newly made boot disk in the internal 5.25" drive and turn on the computer, instead of booting up it
I'd try to verify the contents of the floppies. According to WikipediaYes you should have cleaned and lubed the drive first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_1000#1000_EX
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The 1000 EX came with MS-DOS 2.11 and Personal Deskmate on 5.25" 360kB >diskettes. The MS-DOS was a version specialized for and only bootable on
the Tandy 1000; it included a version of BASICA (Microsoft's Advanced >GW-BASIC) with support for the enhanced CGA graphics modes (a.k.a. Tandy >Graphics or TGA) and three-voice sound hardware of the Tandy 1000.
"""
Note: "The MS-DOS was a version specialized for and only bootable on the >Tandy 1000" sort of implies that the reverse is also true, and regular
MS-DOS disks would not boot.
Otherwise, no help -- I've got a TRS-80 Model III/4 (upgraded main
board, original housing/floppies/power-supply) in storage. Hasn't been >powered up in over 20 years. Suspect I'd have to patch the OS for newer >decades (the original OS only had three bits for the year offset), assuming >the drive heads don't snap off as soon as the disk spins up.
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