Roy Staines schrieb: > > Doing some belated spring cleaning, I and my son felt eager to set up the > Sam Coupe and have a play around. It hasn't been used for a few years and > when a software disk is put in and F9 is pressed I got error code 53 NO > DOS. Tried several disks and got the same, does that mean that the > internal disk drive has died (never woke up)? > > Roy.
Hello Roy. The message NO DOS tells you that there is "no DOS" on the disk, so you can´t boot. If you have a DOS booted, the next possible message can be "NO DISK" also if there is a disk in the slot. In this case try to switch them out and in again or try to press them a bit higher or deeper in the diskdrive, but carefully. This helps mostly. The question about a dead disk drive you can answer yourself if you take a look what the diskdrive does if you press F9. Does it start to run? Can you hear that the disk is moving round? Goes the red light of the drive on and out? If not you`re in a bad situation because original diskdrives are as seldom as the SAM itself to buy. May the might be with you! Wo from WoMo-Team
