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ID address mark not found, can someone explain what that mean's and what's
the easier step, to forget floppy all together and put all my resumes on usb,
or reinstall the proper format, whatever that is, thx mjz.
 
Mark 4561 said:
ID address mark not found, can someone explain what that mean's
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Could be an indication of a bad disk. You weren't trying to save/open
something on the disk using a program like Word or Excel were you?
and what's
the easier step, to forget floppy all together and put all my resumes on
usb,
or reinstall the proper format, whatever that is
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Well forget the floppies. They were never intended for permanent storage,
even when the technology was new many decades ago.

Last weekend I finally got around to moving my remaining files that had been
saved on 3.5" floppies (backups of backups that were many years old). Some
of those disks hadn't been touched in at least five years and, guess what,
eight of about three dozen disks were unreadable.
 
Opinicus said:
Could be an indication of a bad disk. You weren't trying to save/open
something on the disk using a program like Word or Excel were you?


Well forget the floppies. They were never intended for permanent storage,
even when the technology was new many decades ago.

Last weekend I finally got around to moving my remaining files that had been
saved on 3.5" floppies (backups of backups that were many years old). Some
of those disks hadn't been touched in at least five years and, guess what,
eight of about three dozen disks were unreadable.
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I agree, don't bother with floppies...
just get a USB thumbdrive !
 
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