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Other => Other => Topic started by: mik on April 12, 2007, 02:46:53 PM

Title: floppy disk
Post by: mik on April 12, 2007, 02:46:53 PM

I have upgraded from an IBM  T21 ThinkPad (which has serial ports and internal floppy) to a T60 (which only has USB ports and External floppy).After speaking with my IT dept and the vendor at length, I do have the correct new floppy. Problem is that the new floppy says each disk has to be reformatted, which erases all data on the disk. It will not just run my existing disks. Can someone please help me correct this issue?

Title: Re: floppy disk
Post by: Zylstra on April 12, 2007, 02:53:32 PM

What operating system did you use before, and what do you use now?

Did you specially format your disks?

Title: Re: floppy disk
Post by: Computer Hope Admin on April 12, 2007, 10:14:21 PM

For an issue like this it could be one of two things, either a bad floppy disk drive in the computer or that was used to create the diskettes or floppy diskettes are bad. Try going through the below document on floppy troubleshooting.

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000277.htm