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Floppy Not Working
Name: JackMan Date: August 12, 2005 at 13:58:04 Pacific OS: Win XP Home SP2 CPU/Ram: 1 gig
Comment:
My floppy has started acting up. I have a data file that I backup to floppy and it takes 2 disks. All at once, it will run and backup the first floppy, but with the 2nd one I get this error: "Unable to access the specified drive. Retry?" Retry just gives the same error. Replaced the drive with a new one and I get the same message. It won't even work to format a diskette. Error there: "Windows was unable to complete the format".
I can keep putting the 1st disk in and it keeps saying that it is backing the data up!
Name: tomdelonge Date: August 12, 2005 at 15:35:37 Pacific
Reply:
The 2nd disk is obviously faulty if a drive replacement didnt solve the problem.
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Response Number 2
Name: Vien Date: August 12, 2005 at 16:53:14 Pacific
Reply:
The floppy disk is quite easy to crash. In addition, the floppy drive is also bad. I often have a situation when the floppy drive does not work today, but in the next couple days, it works again. It is just the dam technology.
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Response Number 3
Name: squirrel Date: August 12, 2005 at 21:01:43 Pacific
Reply:
people still use floppy drives? wow.......
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Response Number 4
Name: Mike Newcomb Date: August 13, 2005 at 00:42:18 Pacific
Reply:
Have you tried fully reformatting both floppy discs before backing up, or using new ones?
If the read/write heads are slightly out of alignement in the formatting drive the disc can occasionally fail (reading or writing) when used on another drive.
Good Luck - Keep us posted.
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Response Number 5
Name: JackMan Date: August 13, 2005 at 07:26:26 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks everyone.
I tried the disks this morning in the new drive, after I reformatted them on another machine and they worked okay. I then reformatted them on this machine and it worked, so I can only surmise that it was a bad day! <G>
Thanks again!
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Response Number 6
Name: Mike Newcomb Date: August 13, 2005 at 08:47:15 Pacific
Reply:
When backing up, it pays to use more than one set of output media.
For example, at least three sets, or if daily, five - one for each day of the working week.
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