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Floppy bad?

Comment:

Im having problems with my floppy... when i put in a formatted disk keeps asking if i want to format(but the disk has my jpegs on it!) When I try in DOS it says "current drive no longer valid"??

Name: Dr. Zhivago
Date: March 13, 2001 at 02:22:00 Pacific

Reply:

Of course you know that the diskette itself is not corrupted because you've inserted a blank floppy and you get the same message(s)?

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