re: Disk in Drive A: is not formatted ...
Wednesday, July 16, 2003 at 1:02 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Colin
(1 messages posted)
I have just had exactly the same problem (sluggish access of Drive A, hanging up
etc) on TWO completely separate machines. Never had it before, now suddenly they
both start within 1 day of each other (no sharing of disks either!) Both run Win
98 SE2. I am conviced that it was caused by downloading of IE6 (SP1) direct from
MSN's site. This was the only common denominator between the two. Before that both
machines were fine. Taking the same disks to another machine (still on IE5) still
can't access them BUT at least it can format them after which they are OK again (although
obviously data is lost). Nothing on the MSN site about it that I could find...Wondered
if you might also have IE6 installed (especially with the "Service Pack 1").
On Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 3:06 pm, Evelyn Christy wrote:
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>This is why I am here today also. Once we try to open the floppy and get that message,
>the floppy is ruined. Can you hear a difference in the sound and the amount of time
>it is taking to read from the A drive?
>I fear a worm. When I put a perfect floppy into my computer #1 it works. I put
the
>same floppy into computer#3 it works. I put it into #2 and get a message that there
>is no floppy in the drive or at random, unformatted . I then put that same disk
back
>into computer #3 and get the same bad message as well as sluggish reading and a
>lot of noise. I fear Norton and Mcafee may have missed this one. I hope I am wrong
>but be sure to lable any disk that has been tried and failed as possibly now infected.
>
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