That is very true for cd-r and cd-rw drives. But I thik we are talking about floppy disks here. I would try several other machines and if you don't get it to read your probably out of luck Tom Hi Al, the same problem happened to me too often, I removed Adaptec burning Software and replaced it with NTI CD Maker and this helped. Sometimes an Adaptec CD would only work in the CD-RW, not allowing me to select the mode to play in any CD. It also would show an error after 75% was recorded and ruin the CD no matter what size file I would burn. I also found that NTI has an option to examine and report on contents of any CD and it would show the rejected CD was usable. After a few minutes in the CD or CD-Rw it would play normally. I moved to Win2kNTPro and my CD-Rw had no update to W2k. I went on the net and found someone had developed a Driver for it and downloaded it. However Win2k wouldn't accept it and I have to use Window Drivers which are only so-so. Good Luck Ski HAPPY NEW YEAR! BLESS AMERICA, PLEASE GOD! SKI-CHRIS GORSCH ZACHARY, LA. cgorsch@xxxxxxx If Replying, Please Include Copy of Message ========================================== Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man- - Ben Franklin ----- Original Message ----- From: "al m" <ampm@xxxxxxx> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:01 AM Subject: [TechAssist] Floppy discs I have three floppy discs that I was saving information on that now tell me disc is not formatted. How can I put info on and then later on the disc doesn't work. I'm not good with computers and I noticed some real computer whizzes on here. al marquardt ampm@xxxxxxx ------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------ 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