Thanks! I had copied them to my hard drive already. I have to find more of those same disks to see if there are problems with them. they come from the store where I go for my sewing machine embroidery classes. They are black sony disks. I don't want to lose the designs! On my old computer, when the floppy drive died, that was the response I got on all of the disks that I put in it. So this concerned me with this one I just got! Cris ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 10:12 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: thoughts? external floppy problem On the main machine that recognises them - copy the data to the hdd. Then format them on the new machine and put the data back and try again - sometimes works Regards Chris chris@xxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cris Sent: 28 December 2005 15:04 To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- thoughts? external floppy problem 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 -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/