My floppy-disk drive has gone crazy!!!

[HaroldtheGreat]

Howdy, all.

Whenever I put a floppy disk into my Vaio laptop and try to access it (or save onto it), I get a message telling me that either there's not enough space on the disk (which there is) or that the disk may be damaged (which it isn't).  And it makes a funny, grinding sort of sound when my laptop attempts to read the disk.  What could it possibly be?  I certainly would appreciate any and all help.  Thanks.

[GX1_Man]

Bad floppy drive, bad floppy cable, bad floppy port on motherboard in that order are the possibilities. How old is the machine? Was the drive used a lot? Do you have any kind of warranty?

[Raptor]

Try reformatting the diskette before using it.

Did you drop the laptop?

[EssentiaTech]

Accept the terrible fate that is the death of the floppy disk and buy a key drive?  


In seriousness, the above posters have asked some great questions.

[GX1_Man]

Yes and without a response to them Harold The Great is SOL.

Another hit and run poster it seems. It really decreases the chance that someone like this will get any help in the future too, as Raptor keeps track of these people.  

[wangming]

Can you guess that you computer is in the viurs controlling! I know there is one virus to make the floppy
gop crazy!Try killing the virus in you system,may be it can slove the problem!

[GX1_Man]

Run the kill.

Wangming - go here:

www.techarena.in

[patio]

Can you guess that you computer is in the viurs controlling! I know there is one virus to make the floppy
gop crazy!Try killing the virus in you system,may be it can slove the problem!

Unfortunately this post is the closest you have come to making any sense at all.

[GX1_Man]

And it is not very close at all.

Wouldn't he make a great moderator at www.techarena.com?

They could ALL run the kill.

[Fed]

I think we should keep wang for entertainment.

[GX1_Man]

I wonder where he is from? I used to know a guy named Long Wang.

[sneakers]

LMAO!!!!!!

U guys kill me!!!

[Raptor]

I think we should keep wang for entertainment.

Same here. He's not doing any harm. He's just a bit too much into big rabbits and killing things.

[street1 (RIP)]

I think we should keep wang for entertainment.

Same here. He's not doing any harm. He's just a bit too much into big rabbits and killing things.

Well,I know you folks have stayed awake at night trying to figure out how a dog with a itchy behind can throw his whole body in an upright position,and scoot across the ground to scratch the itch using only it's *censored* muscles.

We ain't figured it out yet but,it is called-Shooga.

Shooga!Shooga! :-?

A human can't have a extreme itch in the behind hole at the dead center,and scratch without making a distorted facial expression. :-?

Run The Kill!!!

[patio]

street1 did you take your medication today ? ?

patio.  8-)