Floppy works on some pcs, but not others

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Colleen Gayle Lane

Has anyone else ever noticed this? Frequently a patron will try and access
their floppy disc on one of our pcs and they get the message saying that it
needs to be formatted, but if they move to a different pc they can access
their files just fine. Today I tried one of my own floppies that I created
2 documents on and it would not work on 3 different pcs, but I could open it
on 2 others and my own obviously. Any explanation for why this happens?
Thanks.
 
Differences in head alignment in the floppy drives is your answer. The only
real solution is to change out all the floppy drives, but you'd probably
have better luck using USB keys. The floppy drive is really very obsolete.
 
Colleen Gayle Lane said:
Has anyone else ever noticed this? Frequently a patron will try and access
their floppy disc on one of our pcs and they get the message saying that it
needs to be formatted, but if they move to a different pc they can access
their files just fine. Today I tried one of my own floppies that I created
2 documents on and it would not work on 3 different pcs, but I could open it
on 2 others and my own obviously. Any explanation for why this happens?
Thanks.
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Some of the drives are out of alignment and will need to be replaced
 
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