[Techtoolslist] Fluke 9100A - Cannot boot from system disks

[Ian Eure]

Marc Desfossés <mdesfoss at hotmail.com> writes:

> Hi Ian,
>
> I am using samdisk on a Windows 2000 PC to write images on 
> disks. The floppy drive is HD.
>
> I write them using this commandline. It worked for disks such as 
> the service disk 1.4.
>
>     samdisk copy STREAM A:
>
> The disks I am using are double density disks that were brand 
> new.  They actually came with the Fluke and have a Fluke sticker 
> on them.
>
> I did read the README where you explain some problems writing 
> with HD drive and media. I also tried formatting the disks with 
> the 9100A first as suggested in the README with no luck.
>
> Are you burning your images with samdisk or dtc ?
>
I usually write them with dtc these days, but have used ImageDisk 
in DOS with success as well.

It sounds like your media may be faulty, even though it was 
unused.

  -- Ian