re: Disk in Drive A: is not formatted ...
Thursday, July 17, 2003 at 12:20 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Evelyn Christy
(1 messages posted)
There are tiny screws holding the "A" drive in place. These have worked themselves
loose and the "A" drive is not aligned. The computer runs slow as it is looking for
info in the "A" when it is empty, also when we put in the disk it is not in the right
spot and is getting corrupted. This is why it worked sometimes and not others. I
did EVERYTHING else first to no avail.
Just try it.
You have already thrown out your driver and downloaded a new, right?
Well then this is the most likely problem. There are millions of us users, for several
users to develope a loose screw at the same time is not that rare.
We all upgrade and download at about the same time.
Your virus protect shows no infection. The on-line virus check at housecall showed
no worms or infections. It is a hardware problem.
Send me flowers (or photo of flowers) lol.
On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 at 1:02 pm, Colin wrote:
>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").
>
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