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re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bobbie
(7 messages posted)
Thanks for all your suggestions. I have a friend with a couple of floppy drives
he is not using. He will bring them by tomorrow. I will try them. If they work,
I will use one of them. If not, I think it might be the cable or??
I will format a new floppy in my XP machine and try that, also.
I will also try the cleaning disk if his drives work.
Thanks, Bobbie
On Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 7:39 pm, dhm wrote:
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>Will one of those diskettes format in someone else's computer?
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>Will a new diskette format in yours?
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>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.
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>Also consider that a new floppy drive is $15.
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