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Old December 9th 03, 11:11 AM
kelvin
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Default floppy drive problems

floppies work ok on other machines but keep getting
message ...disc not formatted do you want to format the
disc
can some one help? cleaning the lens did not help
thanks
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Old December 9th 03, 11:17 AM
Delwin Lee [MSFT]
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Default floppy drive problems

Have you ruled out hardware failure? (Does this floppy drive work in other
machines? Or, do other floppy drives work in this machine?)

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"kelvin" wrote in message
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floppies work ok on other machines but keep getting
message ...disc not formatted do you want to format the
disc
can some one help? cleaning the lens did not help
thanks



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Old December 9th 03, 11:28 AM
Kah Kee Nang
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Delwin Lee [MSFT]" wrote in message
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Have you ruled out hardware failure? (Does this floppy drive work in other
machines? Or, do other floppy drives work in this machine?)

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This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no

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"kelvin" wrote in message
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floppies work ok on other machines but keep getting
message ...disc not formatted do you want to format the
disc
can some one help? cleaning the lens did not help
thanks




so anybody has resolved this problematic format issue? Does replacing a
whole new set of FDD resolve this?


 




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