I can not get my floppy disk drive to work. Floppy disk with data on them are rejected as not formatted. Unformatted disks are rejected as unformatted. When I attempt to format them the widows fails to format the disk. Both used and unused disks are rejected.
2006-11-17 04:07:25 · 6 answers · asked by conserve2 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
I use Win2k and it's never been able to make any dependable use of floppies. You need to use pure DOS, an older Windows version, or maybe Linux or BSD. I haven't the faintest clue as to why Win2k has so much trouble with floppies. I've even used third-party formatters with no luck whatsoever.
2006-11-17 04:15:59 · answer #1 · answered by Roasted Kiwi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the floppy disk is damaged .
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2006-11-17 09:20:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-15 16:17:57 · answer #3 · answered by bumber 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you tried the disk in another pc's floppy drive.
2006-11-17 04:12:27 · answer #4 · answered by nyscooch 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
either your floppy read/write head is damage over the time, i'ts really common
that y no one use Floopy no more.
no there is no other way to format floppy.
did you try using command dos?
start->run-> type in cmd
format a:
it shoudl work most of the time.
2006-11-17 04:11:14 · answer #5 · answered by hmongthaoboi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do pepole still use those ?
2006-11-17 04:13:08 · answer #6 · answered by bsmith13421 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋