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Greetings --
To turn off the write protection on a diskette, simply move the
little plastic shield from over the square hole in the upper right
corner of the diskette's casing.
Bruce Chambers
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"mctiger" <wmckeeby@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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7ig70ti7dlkl0k481mj5d77dh42uu5kk3@4ax.com...
> Hi,
> I tried the diskettes at home to format them.
> But they were write protected.
> I went to Staples and got a 10 pack of new ones.
> Got home and tried to format one of them.
> Did not work with any of the 10 new ones!
> All of them were write protected!
> How can I fix this? Device manager states-- this
> device is working properly.
> Thanks in advance.
> Have sence,patience,and self-restrain,and no mischief will come.
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No doubt you have a faulty disk drive. I have one that does the same thing, I just
keep putting the disk in until it seats properly. Disk drives are cheap...
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"mctiger" <wmckeeby@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news7ig70ti7dlkl0k481mj5d77dh42uu5kk3@4ax.com...
> Hi,
> I tried the diskettes at home to format them.
> But they were write protected.
> I went to Staples and got a 10 pack of new ones.
> Got home and tried to format one of them.
> Did not work with any of the 10 new ones!
> All of them were write protected!
> How can I fix this? Device manager states-- this
> device is working properly.
> Thanks in advance.
> Have sence,patience,and self-restrain,and no mischief will come.
Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers (More info?)
Check the type of floppies you bought. Be aware that XP supports formatting
floppies.at 1.44 only,
"mctiger" <wmckeeby@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news7ig70ti7dlkl0k481mj5d77dh42uu5kk3@4ax.com...
> Hi,
> I tried the diskettes at home to format them.
> But they were write protected.
> I went to Staples and got a 10 pack of new ones.
> Got home and tried to format one of them.
> Did not work with any of the 10 new ones!
> All of them were write protected!
> How can I fix this? Device manager states-- this
> device is working properly.
> Thanks in advance.
> Have sence,patience,and self-restrain,and no mischief will come.
>
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