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bernard clark   07-30-2009 at 10:37:45 PM

my flopp disks drive wont let me format disks keep saying windows wont lat me format disk i have window xp disk work drive work light come on but wont let me read or wright to disk

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sturm   07-31-2009 at 05:54:32 PM
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Probably a bad floppy drive. Try a new one. May just be bad disks. 3 1/2 floppies are pretty useless nowadays.

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Bronze Win XP badge aford10   07-31-2009 at 06:18:34 PM
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Make sure the floppy disk isn't locked.

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jm132   11-09-2009 at 10:55:13 PM
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What do you mean by isn't lock.. cause the light and evrything opens on my floppy disk but when i put something for it to be read, it says that its not format, cannot read the disk. When I try to format my floppy disk a prompt appears and says your disk can't be format!

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jm132   11-09-2009 at 10:57:29 PM
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aford10 wrote :

Make sure the floppy disk isn't locked.


What do you mean by its not locked !! .. How can I know if its locked!

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number13   11-10-2009 at 02:29:54 AM
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first I'm going to assume that you are using 3.5" 1.44M floppies, hold it up so you can see the two openings, one of them has a slider, if it is closed(no light) it's locked, BTW, if these floppies were removed from the drive before the light went off, they make great frisbies


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