A Drive

[Virtualbody1234]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts openly, clocker.

[clocker]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts openly, clocker.

It's part of the new, more sensitive me.
I plan on doing this daily....right before I begin relentlessly spamming the board and begging for mod status.
I may begin stalking Sara and Everose also...haven't quite decided.

Being a digital psychopath is so liberating!

[h121589]

Please... Right click on the floppy drive icon in 'My Computer' and select format.

How basic can it get?

well sorry

[tesco]

well sorry

So did you try a different floppy yet?

[h121589]

yea i tried it with two different types of floppys

i know wut the problem is now those Non-Name brand(The Floppy that says only HD on it) floppys dont work my floppy drive doesnt read those non-name brand floppys.
i tried FujiFilm and Imation and my floppy drive read those two floppys perfectly

[KazaaBoy]

Another problem is that the pins on the motherboard are damaged or broken which makes your floppy drive not work at all. Like mine!!

[bigboab]

If it is a new floppy disk there is every chance, in this case, that it has not been pre-formatted. If this is the case then your computer will not recognise it. You will have to format it first.

If you want to do it the old fashioned way then follow this procedure:

1. Check that the drive your disk is in is actually the A: drive.

2. Go into your DOS window

3. It should show C:\

4. Type Format A: /S /V then press the return key.

5. The /S puts two hidden files on your disk. sometimes a requirement on older computers.

6. The /V Allows to to put a volume label or name to your disk.

If you dont have a DOS window or dont want to experiment then follow the Format directions described in an earlier post.

Incidentally for those amongst you who appear to ridicule. Everyone has to start somewhere. Everyone is not a computer expert.

Just to point out to the experts. There was never a 5 inch floppy disc.

The floppies were five and a quarter, Three inch(An Amstrad disaster) and the Three and a half inch disk. Still in reasonably common use.

Does this bring back memories Clocker.

P.S. This has been written with tongue in cheek. Please dont flame as I dont normally travel well.

[lynx]

P.S. This has been written with tongue in cheek. Please dont flame as I dont normally travel well.

Please take your tongue out of your cheek, it makes you incoherent and you are starting to dribble. And that will do your floppy no good at all.

[bigboab]

Please take your tongue out of your cheek, it makes you incoherent and you are starting to dribble. And that will do your floppy no good at all.

Thanks Lynx. That is the best thing I have heard this morning. After the last two results Scotland is badly in need of dribblers.

[RPerry]

this is the winner of the best thread I have read this morning. All this trouble over a floppy drive Makes me glad I disconnected mine a long time ago. If your in the Orlando area, you can buy a new one at the marketpro computer show this weekend