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try to format 3 1/2 disk (brand new) tells me over and over it is write protected. check to be sure and it is not. just what am i doing wrong. thank you one and all
Just the one diskette, or any & all?
Possibly the floppy drive sensor is broken
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There are two square holes in the floppy. One of them has a slider on it that can be moved to block to hole. When the tab is covering the hole the disk is write protected. This is so you can protect data from being overwritten accidently.
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... the lack of caps & decent punctuation make it difficult to tell, but:
"tells me over and over it is write protected. check to be sure and it is not"
Likely time for a new drive
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Contrary to #2, when the tab is covering the hole it is WRITE ENABLED.
Hard to figure why the boxful would be sold with the hole OPEN. But ya never know.
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That's right (now that you mention it) - original software diskettes often came with the tab removed as an extra safeguard
Hopefully the OP tried both positions just to be sure
Naturally, completely the reverse of how 5¼" floppies were protected - you'd get a page of decals that you would use to cover up the notch to write-protect
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Mechanix
Of course you are correct. Thats what I get for using memory instead of looking. Hell to get old and feeble.
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"Naturally, completely the reverse of how 5¼" floppies were protected - you'd get a page of decals that you would use to cover up the notch to write-protect"
I always kinda liked the silvery ones.
I suppose if many were still using 5.25" FDs we'd now be awash with write-protect stickys printed with emoticons. More 21st century effluent.
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Some bios' have an option to disallow writing to a floppy disk. You may get that error message if it's enabled.
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>>Naturally, completely the reverse of how 5¼" floppies were protected
so typical of how the designers tend to proceed in this industry...
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." - BILL CLINTON
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Hi, The usual reason,if all floppys fail is that the pin sticking up on the left side front of the floppy slot is broken off. You should see 3 pins, 2 on the lift side and 1 on the right side if you open the door and look inside. It goes through the hole in the disk when the slide is pushed up. Broken, the switch thinks the slide is always up. MAYBE!
Good Luck, Jim
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I suppose, if you had nothing but time (say, as an inmate in a psychiatric institution) then you could frak around with it and 'maybe' fix it, or satisfy some obsessive form of curiosity
The rest of us would just replace it
"write-protect stickys printed with emoticons - heh, those'd be 'emoticals' then
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'emoticals'
Give that man a stogey.
Seems somehow cosmically appropriate on this 25th anniversary of the IBM PC.
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