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Floppy not recognized
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| had a co-work complain about taking a new floppy (formatted out of the box)
and using it in an older system without problem, however, when they put the
same disc in a newer PC, the contents couldn't be read...any ideas??
TIA - AL
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| Tom MacIntyre 2004-01-07, 5:24 pm |
| On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 20:02:03 -0600, "joe" <na.com> wrote:
>had a co-work complain about taking a new floppy (formatted out of the box)
>and using it in an older system without problem, however, when they put the
>same disc in a newer PC, the contents couldn't be read...any ideas??
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>TIA - AL
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If it was a 5 1/4", 720k floppy being read in a 1.2M drive, the track
width would be the issue, but with 3 1/2 " drives the track length
determines the density.
Have you tried formatting a diskette in the newer PC, writing to it,
and trying it in the older PC?
Tom
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| Tom...thanks for the thoughts...talking with the co-worker revealed the
disks were nearly two years old...I asked her if she could copy the floppies
over to a new ones...working good so far; too bad she has a few dozen to
take care of...
"Tom MacIntyre" <tom__macintyre@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 20:02:03 -0600, "joe" <na.com> wrote:
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> If it was a 5 1/4", 720k floppy being read in a 1.2M drive, the track
> width would be the issue, but with 3 1/2 " drives the track length
> determines the density.
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> Have you tried formatting a diskette in the newer PC, writing to it,
> and trying it in the older PC?
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> Tom
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| BLueCoBra 2004-01-10, 10:24 pm |
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"joe" <na.com> wrote in message news:vvuq75cgo55c0@corp.supernews.com...
> Tom...thanks for the thoughts...talking with the co-worker revealed the
> disks were nearly two years old...I asked her if she could copy the
floppies
> over to a new ones...working good so far; too bad she has a few dozen to
> take care of...
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Any reason why she couldn't just copy all the floppies to separate folders
on a cdr? Make it like a 'master' disk, if anybody ever needs a floppy, just
copy the appropriate folder to the floppy.
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| Floppies are used in a job center for individual resumes...clients are
allowed to work on their resumes at the center but must turn the disk in
prior to leaving...this process mitigates the risk of someone "accidently"
bringing in an infected disk (despite having Norton)
"BLueCoBra" <bluecobra@*nospam*intergate.com> wrote in message
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> "joe" <na.com> wrote in message news:vvuq75cgo55c0@corp.supernews.com...
> floppies
> Any reason why she couldn't just copy all the floppies to separate folders
> on a cdr? Make it like a 'master' disk, if anybody ever needs a floppy,
just
> copy the appropriate folder to the floppy.
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