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.
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.
When that happend to me, I just took the disk, yelled at it, and put it back in. It ran just fine. True story.
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.
Quote: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
How do I do that?
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.