Diskettes

[mctiger]

Hi,
I tried the diskettes at home to format them.
But they were write protected.
I went to Staples and got a 10 pack of new ones.
Got home and tried to format one of them.
Did not work with any of the 10 new ones!
All of them were write protected!
How can I fix this? Device manager states-- this
device is working properly.
Thanks in advance.
Have sence,patience,and self-restrain,and no mischief will come.

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

To turn off the write protection on a diskette, simply move the
little plastic shield from over the square hole in the upper right
corner of the diskette's casing.

Bruce Chambers

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"mctiger" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
> I tried the diskettes at home to format them.
> But they were write protected.
> I went to Staples and got a 10 pack of new ones.
> Got home and tried to format one of them.
> Did not work with any of the 10 new ones!
> All of them were write protected!
> How can I fix this? Device manager states-- this
> device is working properly.
> Thanks in advance.
> Have sence,patience,and self-restrain,and no mischief will come.

[Mary Sauer]

No doubt you have a faulty disk drive. I have one that does the same thing, I just
keep putting the disk in until it seats properly. Disk drives are cheap...

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"mctiger" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
> I tried the diskettes at home to format them.
> But they were write protected.
> I went to Staples and got a 10 pack of new ones.
> Got home and tried to format one of them.
> Did not work with any of the 10 new ones!
> All of them were write protected!
> How can I fix this? Device manager states-- this
> device is working properly.
> Thanks in advance.
> Have sence,patience,and self-restrain,and no mischief will come.

[Mistoffolees]

mctiger wrote:

> Hi,
> I tried the diskettes at home to format them.
> But they were write protected.
> I went to Staples and got a 10 pack of new ones.
> Got home and tried to format one of them.
> Did not work with any of the 10 new ones!
> All of them were write protected!
> How can I fix this? Device manager states-- this
> device is working properly.
> Thanks in advance.
> Have sence,patience,and self-restrain,and no mischief will come.


Write-protected and new from the store? Unusual. More likely
a defective floppy disk drive since the OS is reporting that
it is working properly. The mpm-write protect sensor is broken.

[mctiger]

Hi,
Just wanted to say "thanks for the responses"
And a Happy Easter to all.
Have sence,patience,and self-restrain,and no mischief will come.

[Henry]

try looking at the back side of the diskette...and TURNING OFF the write
protection.....


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[Unknown]

Check the type of floppies you bought. Be aware that XP supports formatting
floppies.at 1.44 only,
"mctiger" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
> I tried the diskettes at home to format them.
> But they were write protected.
> I went to Staples and got a 10 pack of new ones.
> Got home and tried to format one of them.
> Did not work with any of the 10 new ones!
> All of them were write protected!
> How can I fix this? Device manager states-- this
> device is working properly.
> Thanks in advance.
> Have sence,patience,and self-restrain,and no mischief will come.
>