-=PCTechTalk=- Re: thoughts? external floppy problem

oh yeah! I don't want to lose the data! My sewing machine takes floppy disks 
for its embroidery designs - but I try to put them all on my hard drive and 
then a cd at some point in time. I hadn't done that with these yet though - 
until this problem occured! 
these are the normal 3 1/2 floppies used today. (that will also soon be done 
away with!)
they were put on the floppies by someone elses computer/floppy drive. I'll play 
around with them now that I've saved the files. 
thanks! 
cris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: David T.W. Chun 
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 10:21 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: thoughts? external floppy problem


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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