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David   07-22-2005 at 05:35:57 AM

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I have been using a floppy disk in DRIVE A recently, but today the foppy
disk will not work.

A message comes up saying 'THE DISK IN DRIVE A IS NOT FORMATTED. DO YOU WANT
TO FORMAT IT NOW? YES/NO'

Is it the disk or the drive the problem?

How do I get the files of that floppy?

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Anonymous   07-22-2005 at 05:35:58 AM
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David wrote:
> I have been using a floppy disk in DRIVE A recently, but today the foppy
> disk will not work.
>
> A message comes up saying 'THE DISK IN DRIVE A IS NOT FORMATTED. DO YOU WANT
> TO FORMAT IT NOW? YES/NO'
>
> Is it the disk or the drive the problem?
>
> How do I get the files of that floppy?
>
>

It could be a little bit of both. Utilization of floppy disk
drives has decreased significantly and quality control in the
manufacturing of floppy disk drives and pre-formatted diskettes
have also gotten poorer. Best way to try to retrieve files from
the floppy is to use a different floppy disk drive...in another
computer system, if available.

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David   07-22-2005 at 06:06:59 AM
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Is the drive not likely to be the problem but the disk?


"Ghostrider" <-00-@fitron.142> wrote in message
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>
> David wrote:
>> I have been using a floppy disk in DRIVE A recently, but today the foppy
>> disk will not work.
>>
>> A message comes up saying 'THE DISK IN DRIVE A IS NOT FORMATTED. DO YOU
>> WANT TO FORMAT IT NOW? YES/NO'
>>
>> Is it the disk or the drive the problem?
>>
>> How do I get the files of that floppy?
>
> It could be a little bit of both. Utilization of floppy disk
> drives has decreased significantly and quality control in the
> manufacturing of floppy disk drives and pre-formatted diskettes
> have also gotten poorer. Best way to try to retrieve files from
> the floppy is to use a different floppy disk drive...in another
> computer system, if available.

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Anonymous   07-22-2005 at 10:48:58 AM
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