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re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 7:39 pm
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Posted by dhm (966 messages posted)

Will one of those diskettes format in someone else's computer? Will a new diskette format in yours? Buy a head cleaning diskette. About $3. Such a one has a disk of fabric in it and a bottle of a magic fluid that you are to put one one radial streak on the diskette. If the magic cleaning fluid runs out I find that alcohol works. Put it in the drive and try to access A: a half dozen times. Then the head will be clean.

Also consider that a new floppy drive is $15.

On Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 7:04 pm, Bobbie wrote:
>The disks I am using were purchased formatted prior to 2000. CompUSA had a big sale
>and I bought about 1500 of these 1.44 mb disks. I tried using some that had info
>on them that I had saved back in the early 2000's when I was still using Win98 and
>those disks did not work either.
>
>How do I, or can I, format a disk with the FAT system on a WIN XP machine?
>
>Bobbie
>
>
>

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re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 7:04 pm)

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re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 8:44 pm)