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John Richards
I copied a file to a previously formated and used floppy in one of my two
PCs and tried to read it on the other PC. When I clicked on the drive in
windows explorer, it said the drive was unformatted. I put the floppy back
into the original PC and it also told me the floppy was unformatted. When I
removed it I noticed that the metal cover on the floppy didn't slide easily
and thought that the disk was bad. I then tried a brand new preformatted
floppy in the original PC and it told me that IT was not formatted and did I
want to format it. I clicked yes but after a short wait, it said it
couldn't format it. I don't remember exactly what the message was but I
think it was unable to read the disk. I tried other new disks on both PCs
with the same results. I suppose ANYTHING is possible but how likely is it
that a bad floppy disk trashed the floppy drives in both PCs, or is there
another possible explanation for what's going on?
Thanks
John
PCs and tried to read it on the other PC. When I clicked on the drive in
windows explorer, it said the drive was unformatted. I put the floppy back
into the original PC and it also told me the floppy was unformatted. When I
removed it I noticed that the metal cover on the floppy didn't slide easily
and thought that the disk was bad. I then tried a brand new preformatted
floppy in the original PC and it told me that IT was not formatted and did I
want to format it. I clicked yes but after a short wait, it said it
couldn't format it. I don't remember exactly what the message was but I
think it was unable to read the disk. I tried other new disks on both PCs
with the same results. I suppose ANYTHING is possible but how likely is it
that a bad floppy disk trashed the floppy drives in both PCs, or is there
another possible explanation for what's going on?
Thanks
John