format a floppy disc

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i want to be able to clean a 3.5 floppy disc - delete what is already on
there - how do i do this please?
 
What has this to do with Microsoft Word? Floppy discs have no place near
Word!

However to answer your question, from Windows Explorer select the A drive in
the left window, right click and select format. Choose Quick Format.

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What has this to do with Microsoft Word? Floppy discs have no place near
Word!

However to answer your question, from Windows Explorer select the A drive in
the left window, right click and select format. Choose Quick Format.
Click to expand...

Choose quickformat only if it is agenuine floppy dfisk. Stiffy disks are too
unreliable, and should have a full format, otherwise you might take a document
from work to home or vice versa and get bad sector errors, which can be very
frustrating if you promised the boss you'd have it ready in the morning.
 
3.5" discs are no less reliable than any other - what is unreliable is
saving or opening Word documents to/from them. It is the major cause of
document corruption. It is not the disc that's the problem but the way Word
uses temporary files in the working folder.

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