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Floppy gone bad
Name: TonyFreeman Date: June 14, 2004 at 04:52:15 Pacific OS: 2000 CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
My old Dell's floppy drive's not recognising floppies. It keeps telling me I have to format the disks, but the disks are ok.
Name: Michelle67 Date: June 14, 2004 at 05:09:49 Pacific
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I'd say that your dive went bad. I had the same thing happen and it drove me nuts. When I replaced the drive the problem went away. Go to Newegg.com they have a Sony floppy drive for $12 and it gets delivered to your house. That's what I have and not a problem yet.
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Response Number 2
Name: Sandor Date: June 14, 2004 at 08:08:42 Pacific
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Make sure you get a floppy that will fit the custom Dell cases/faceplates.
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Response Number 3
Name: ham30 Date: June 14, 2004 at 09:13:27 Pacific
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Just in case! Make sure that the floppy is set up correctly in the bios.
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Response Number 4
Name: rrlyon Date: June 14, 2004 at 16:14:23 Pacific
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Did you look in the front of the drive to see if there is any dust build up. If there are any visible dust bunnies then any floppy disk will show up as unformatted. The drive will not be able to read the disk and most likely any floppies inserted will be damaged and no longer work.
Richard
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Response Number 5
Name: TonyFreeman Date: June 15, 2004 at 00:23:49 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for the tips!
>Just in case! Make sure that the floppy is set up correctly in the bios.
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