formatting a floppy disc
06 March 2004, 05:20 PM
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formatting a floppy disc
my girlfriend has her cv on floppy .
I've just put it into the drive and it's asking me to format the disc first
can i press yes to this ? or will it wipe it ? ?
if it gets wiped , i'll probably get wiped out as well
I've just put it into the drive and it's asking me to format the disc first
can i press yes to this ? or will it wipe it ? ?
if it gets wiped , i'll probably get wiped out as well
06 March 2004, 06:34 PM
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Either clean floppy drive with disk based cleaner, if this fails - use something like norton disk doctor to try and recover some of the sectors.
06 March 2004, 09:55 PM
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Don't format or you will wipe it!!
At a guess the PC used to put the CV onto disk has an earlier operating system than the one you are now trying to read it on. (i.e. written on a Win98 machine, trying to read on an XP machine.) You'll probably find you can read it OK on a PC with the same OS as the original.
At a guess the PC used to put the CV onto disk has an earlier operating system than the one you are now trying to read it on. (i.e. written on a Win98 machine, trying to read on an XP machine.) You'll probably find you can read it OK on a PC with the same OS as the original.
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07 March 2004, 10:33 AM
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It does not make a difference what operating system it is on. You cant format a floppy to NTFS - only FAT. Even dos and linux can read a fat floppy.
07 March 2004, 11:26 AM
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In theory that is correct, but I've had numerous instances where disks formatted on 98/ME machines would not read on XP machines, but were OK on the lowers OS machines
07 March 2004, 11:39 AM
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More usually a case of a floppy written on one floppy drive doesn't always read on another floppy drive, regardless of OS.
It is just the technology and it has always happened. Something to do with alignment of the read heads or something <mumble>
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It is just the technology and it has always happened. Something to do with alignment of the read heads or something <mumble>
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07 March 2004, 01:22 PM
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Yep - 2 different drives - misaligned head is spot on, but usually dirty - bit of alchohol on a floppy cleaner - works nearly every time.
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