-=PCTechTalk=- Re: thoughts? external floppy problem
- From: "David T.W. Chun" <dtwchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:21:28 -0500
Cris,
Having lost data before with bad floppies, I would say that you should
be happy that the 2 disks are readable on a machine. You should
probably 'disk copy' those 2 floppies on new floppies so that you can
read the data on both the external floppy and your machine (or copy the
data onto your hard drive and then archive them on your floppy disk or
CD etc). Sounds like the tolerances on your external floppy and desktop
might be slightly off -- are these 5 1/4 or 3 1/2 (use to be a real
problem with 5 1/4 floppies and less so with 3 1/2, bud did occur? Hard
to say with is at fault unless you just try them out on different
computers (try many other computers) to see which is closest to the
tolerances that can be read by others in case you ever need to get the
data back -- usually in my case, the media is cheap, but the data is not.
David
Cris wrote:
> I bought an external floppy drive.
> I tried it last night - and all of the floppy's that I put
> in work fine - except for 2.
> they come up and say - disk is not formated, do you want to
> format now.
> Problem is - these disks have data on them, and can be read
> on the floppy drive in my main computer.
> What do you think? is there a problem with the floppy drive?
> or those disks?
> thanks!
> Cris
>
>
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