One of my A Drive floppy disks has suddenly stopped working on my computer. Whenever I put it in and try to activate it, my computer takes a long time reading it then says it can't and asks me if I want to reformat it.
Is there any way I can get the disk to work? There's a lot of important material on it and reformatting it will erase that material.
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I hate when that happens. If your Floppy Disk isn't working, maybe JUST maybe, you should try going to Scan Disk and run a complete test on it, try to repair the errors. If it works and your disk isn't so damaged, then you'll have everything back without having to run the reformatting.
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When that happend to me, I just took the disk, yelled at it, and put it back in. It ran just fine. True story.
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I simply hate it when Floppy Disk's do that.
Last time my Floppy Disk did that, I nearly yelled - That floppy contained all the work that my boss had on there....
Although, I don't remember how I got the disk to work.
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Go to My PC. Then click on Unit C with a right click. Then click on properties and proceed to perform a scan for errors. You can either choose Unit C or A there, so choose A and perform a full search for errors, also put to restore all the errors. If that doesn't work then your disk is totally screwed up.
Belongs in Rants.
I don't bother with floppies. I use CDs and memory sticks, myself.
Okay, still need help, but I'm moving this to Rants.
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