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When someone access his floppy disk, he is getting a general failure error. Maybe that the light is coming or not,when you try the command.
                  “ A drive working in windows,but when it come to DOS it is giving a error that General Failure reading drive A:
Abort:: retry:: fail:: ”
Explanation: This happens just with some particular diskette, then it would be the diskette has some non standard format. It can have more then 80 tracks or more then 18 sectors per track. Generally Windows can read such diskette without a problem, but to read it in DOS you need special driver.

But if you can't read any diskette at all, check out CMOS settings for the floppy drive.It might be that the type of the diskette was set incorrect.
Cause:

• Mainly it cause because of accessing the unformatted disk.
• If the light is not coming then it might be a problem with your drive/controller.
• If the Disk is not Formatted or the Diskette is damaged (Problem of Bad Sector) then the error occurs.
• If the disk is totally damaged then it could occur.

• If it is a unformatted disk then u know what u have to do.Yes Format It.

1. In this case try running a drive cleaner through the floppy drive.
2. It is a bad floppy. It might have a bad sector in it and the drive can't read it.
3. The disk might be damaged.

• If there is any problem of Bad Sector in the diskette then you should transfer the data from the Bad Sector to a Good Sector by using  the NDD(Norton Disk Doctor) Command of the Norton Utility. You can also point out the Bad Sector as bad and make the diskette usable.
• If the Diskette is not readable then it could be turned into readable by formatting (Formatting will erase its memory) it. 

• I’m getting Error message: Track O Bad.
• Monitor Display without Color.
• Power coming to monitor without display.
• Insert System disk and Press anykey to continue.