That may explain why all my floppies are working now that's it's winter. -- Best regards, Bil mailto:tv.vcrrepair@xxxxxxxxxxx Thursday, January 2, 2003, 11:04:25 AM, you wrote: TD> I've done what you say too with the Degausser - only to make the disks worse TD> than before. Had one with Permanent bad sectors after I did that - but TD> eventually after reading & writing to the good areas on it, I happened to do TD> a Reformat by chance, and the bad sectors were fixed. TD> My Guess is that the wipe removed TOO much magnetism from the surface of TD> that area, and perhaps when the head went to make the "designated" charge to TD> the surface, it wasnt enough to do the trick. TD> Wait till Summertime - Weird things happen to the earths magnetic field in TD> the summer :o) TD> Steve TD> Technotronic Dimensions, NY (USA) TD> www.Technotronic-Dimensions.com TD> 1-877-817-9885 TD> 1-877-817-9885 (FAX) TD> ----- Original Message ----- TD> From: "Bil Green" <tv.vcrrepair@xxxxxxxxxxx> TD> To: "al m" <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> TD> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 1:47 PM TD> Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Floppy discs >> >> Hi Al, >> >> I have had many floppy disks go bad ("not formatted") for no apparent >> reason (no magnets). Sometimes 3 in a row. I was able to get some >> working again by degaussing them (no more data of course). Most of >> mine are not helped by doing this. >> >> I don't have any problem with static electricity here, floppies were >> not near steel or magnets - what's going on? >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Bil mailto:tv.vcrrepair@xxxxxxxxxxx >> >> Thursday, January 2, 2003, 8:01:54 AM, you wrote: >> >> am> I have three floppy discs that I was saving information on that now TD> tell me disc is not formatted. How can I put info on and then later on the TD> disc doesn't work. I'm not good with computers and I >> am> noticed some real computer whizzes on here. >> am> al marquardt >> am> ampm@xxxxxxx >> >> >> am> ------------------------------------------ >> am> Submit A Repair Tip For Everyone Here: >> am> http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/main.html >> am> ------------------------------------------ >> am> To REMOVE your email address, click here: >> am> http://www.tech-assist.org/unsubb.html >> am> To CHANGE your email address, click here: >> am> http://www.techassist.net/forms/change.html >> >> ------------------------------------------ >> Submit A Repair Tip For Everyone Here: >> http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/main.html >> ------------------------------------------ >> To REMOVE your email address, click here: >> http://www.tech-assist.org/unsubb.html >> To CHANGE your email address, click here: >> http://www.techassist.net/forms/change.html >> >> TD> ------------------------------------------ TD> Submit A Repair Tip For Everyone Here: TD> http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/main.html TD> ------------------------------------------ TD> To REMOVE your email address, click here: TD> http://www.tech-assist.org/unsubb.html TD> To CHANGE your email address, click here: TD> http://www.techassist.net/forms/change.html ------------------------------------------ Submit A Repair Tip For Everyone Here: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/main.html ------------------------------------------ To REMOVE your email address, click here: http://www.tech-assist.org/unsubb.html To CHANGE your email address, click here: http://www.techassist.net/forms/change.html