re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks'
Friday, December 23, 2005 at 4:13 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Durward Leeper
(2 messages posted)
Gentlemen,
Thank you for your answers. I agree with all you say but what you are giving me are
"workarounds". I've used this system for about ten years using os's from Win 3.1
to XP and Office versions from 95 to 97. I have had no trouble (except failing floppy's
for which I early on adopted multiple floppy backup!). The trouble began when I tried
to use "Briefcase" so that I could incremental backups. I'm not sure why but it just
doesn't work on this machine. It did however, make a change to my Excel program that
causes this problem. I would like to correct the change.
Thanks for your interest.
Durward
On Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 8:46 am, Ricer46 wrote:
>Seems strange that it would do that, but Bob B is right. It's really not advisable
>to save directly to the floppy disk. Besides not being a safe practice, it adds
the
>file to your MRU list, which causes annoying floppy disk searches. Also always remember
>that floppy disks are the least reliable of all storage media.
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