my PowerBook 5300cs won't boot off floppy disk (Reposted, it said it had an error!)

[Mark_23]

I have a PowerBook 5300cs (don't care it's recalled) It works just fine until I want to boot off a floppy disk. Whenever I put in a floppy disk (Any) it just spits it out with automatic ejection right after it shows a blinking floppy disk image (working, no X), and then boots into the hard drive.

Even on an Apple Startup disk, it just says "Not for this model!" even though it is.

I'm running Mac OS 7.5.2, can you help?

 

[Steven Jiang]

Umm the model is rare, apple support probably stopped the support(which is most likely why you're here), and repair parts are even more rare... But I'll try my best at solving this.. Is your floppy disk "new"?(unused is fine, they don't sell it anymore so it cant be new).

 

[Steven Jiang]

If it is, maybe your floppy disk drive is dead?

 

[Steven Jiang]

Havent seen a question about computers of this age in quite a while(last time i "saw" was when someone asked me in person in 2007... This forum is a rare breed...)