Floppy drive

External Since: May 20, 2006 Posts: 3

Problem reading floppy drive A:\
window keep saying 'pls insert a disk' but disk with data already in or '
this disk is not formatted' but cant format. It was working fine before.

thanks

External Since: Aug 13, 2004 Posts: 86

Hi,

There is always a possibility of read failure with floppy disks. And the
reasons could be the following.

1. bad media.
2. dust accumulated on the floppy.
3. unreadable files.

Please see if you experience the same problem with other floppy disks.

Always take precautions when using floppy drives and store the disks in a
clean box away from dust and also follow the safety mechanism of having
multiple backup disks especially for recovery disks.

As a last option please contact your hardware vendor to check the floppy
drive for errors.
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M. Rajesh
www.winxpsolution.com.
Windows MarketPlace Moderator

"cat5" wrote:

> Problem reading floppy drive A:\
> window keep saying 'pls insert a disk' but disk with data already in or '
> this disk is not formatted' but cant format. It was working fine before.
>
> thanks
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