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problem with laptop floppy drive
I posted this question a few days ago, without response. However, I'm
repeating it here in case the problem was that people were away from their computers on the weekend. I have a Panasonic CF-25 laptop with Win 98 which I bought used recently to do odd jobs and as a backup to my new P4 desktop. It has removable CD and floppy drives which fit into the same slot. After I loaded all my required software with the CD I inserted the floppy drive so I could have a data backup. I took one of the floppies I was using on the desktop to use for this purpose. Since I wasn't sure how old the floppy was I decided to format it on the laptop just to be sure it was good and there were no compatibility problems. Now the strange part. The laptop can read the floppy off My Computer, and can save and read from it. But when I try to format it keeps telling me there is no floppy in the drive or the door is open, both of which are definitely not true. Even though the floppy does work as backup, this failure to find it for format makes me nervous. Do I have a software problem, is there a physical problem with my drive, or am I missing something obvious and simple? |
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Dave Gower wrote:
I posted this question a few days ago, without response. However, I'm repeating it here in case the problem was that people were away from their computers on the weekend. hey, I just have subscribed to this group so had no chance to answer to your post before I have a Panasonic CF-25 laptop with Win 98 which I bought used recently to do odd jobs and as a backup to my new P4 desktop. It has removable CD and floppy drives which fit into the same slot. After I loaded all my required software with the CD I inserted the floppy drive so I could have a data backup. I took one of the floppies I was using on the desktop to use for this purpose. Since I wasn't sure how old the floppy was I decided to format it on the laptop just to be sure it was good and there were no compatibility problems. sound well Now the strange part. The laptop can read the floppy off My Computer, and can save and read from it. But when I try to format it keeps telling me there is no floppy in the drive or the door is open, both of which are definitely not true. Even though the floppy does work as backup, this failure to find it for format makes me nervous. Do I have a software problem, is there a physical problem with my drive, or am I missing something obvious and simple? two questions for you: 1. can you read/write, let's say move files to your workstation back and forth using this floppy disk? 2. maybe it's the problem of your disk so try to format another one? CineQ |
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Dave Gower wrote:
I posted this question a few days ago, without response. However, I'm repeating it here in case the problem was that people were away from their computers on the weekend. I have a Panasonic CF-25 laptop with Win 98 which I bought used recently to do odd jobs and as a backup to my new P4 desktop. It has removable CD and floppy drives which fit into the same slot. After I loaded all my required software with the CD I inserted the floppy drive so I could have a data backup. I took one of the floppies I was using on the desktop to use for this purpose. Since I wasn't sure how old the floppy was I decided to format it on the laptop just to be sure it was good and there were no compatibility problems. Now the strange part. The laptop can read the floppy off My Computer, and can save and read from it. But when I try to format it keeps telling me there is no floppy in the drive or the door is open, both of which are definitely not true. Even though the floppy does work as backup, this failure to find it for format makes me nervous. Do I have a software problem, is there a physical problem with my drive, or am I missing something obvious and simple? One of the floppy drives is out of callibration. Create a floppy from each computer and try and read them on another system, to find the culprit. Sounds like the one with the door problem, floppy not inserted. Drive heads probably can't read sector 0 so think, no floppy... Minotaur |
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"Minotaur" wrote One of the floppy drives is out of callibration. Thanks. You learn something new every day. Since the laptop is well used and the desktop is new and has never had a problem, I'd bet on the former as the culprit. It needs a new battery so maybe I'll look for a new drive as well. |
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