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Floppies won't write
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:33 pm
by hkancyr
I have a problem with floppies, they won't write. I can read fine but they won't write. I have tried 3 new floppy drives and none write. My other Vista desktop has the same problem, it's a P4 3.2EE. My laptop with Vista reads and writes floppies OK.
What can the matter be?
Re: Floppies won't write
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 1:49 pm
by DMB2000uk
Have you tried several disks instead of drives?
What do you need the floppy's for in this day and age anyways?
RAID drivers is all i ever use mine for, and a BIOS update one time.
Dan
Re: Floppies won't write
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:13 am
by ibleet
I have always found floppies to be unreliable, so I am not surprised.
Re: Floppies won't write
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:14 am
by Darkstar
floppies....ugh
have you checked the tabs to make sure they didnt get moved to write protection?
Re: Floppies won't write
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:44 pm
by vicaphit
How did we live with these things for 20+ years?
Anyway, sounds like a drivers or floppy disk issue. I cant imagine all 3 drives having the same exact problem.
Re: Floppies won't write
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:15 am
by Darkstar
vicaphit wrote:How did we live with these things for 20+ years?
Anyway, sounds like a drivers or floppy disk issue. I cant imagine all 3 drives having the same exact problem.
LOL, covered your bases there Vicaphit....