Problems with 3.5" Floppies. I'm very puzzled.

[PlatinumGold]

is there something that affects Just FLOPPIES??

EVERY ONE of my floppies is coming up Track 0 bad. Cannot be formatted.

i've tried formatting in excess of 30 floppies over the last 10 minutes and EVERY ONE of them comes up with the same error.

anyone have a clue as to why?? btw, i'm trying to format FAT.

 

[LED]

If you had the media near 1 magnetic field then they are now defunct

 

[thorin]

Try a different drive.

Thorin

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: thorin
Try a different drive.

Thorin

i did.

same thing.

i'm really puzzled.

 

[BigFatCow]

try a different floppy cable.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: BigFatCow
try a different floppy cable.

so your thinking it's more likely to be the disk drive and not the floppies??

hmm. i'll try the cable.

it's just that i hadn't used any of my floppies in soo long and now i need floppies to install this scsi raid controller. sucks.

 

[PlatinumGold]

ok, tried different floppy cable, no go.

could it be the floppies, it's just weird that all 30 floppies will be bad.

 

[Sheriff]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
ok, tried different floppy cable, no go.

could it be the floppies, it's just weird that all 30 floppies will be bad.

If you had the media near 1 magnetic field then they are now defunct

 

[thorin]

Have you used the foppy drive in that system (on that mobo) before? (Could be a bad mobo connector)

Thorin

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: thorin
Have you used the foppy drive in that system (on that mobo) before? (Could be a bad mobo connector)

Thorin

actually it was 2 different systems i was having the same problem in. one system is relatively new to me but the other system i built and yes, i had used the floppy before.

 

[PlatinumGold]

on the way home from work today, i'll buy some new floppies and see if the problem persists.

 

[dkozloski]

Maybe you got ahold of some Mac formatted floppies.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: dkozloski
Maybe you got ahold of some Mac formatted floppies.

some of them were mac formatted, but in the past, i've always been able to format right over them without issues, but over half of them were non formatted at purchase and formated for PC.

 

[CraigRT]

I bet something happened to the entire batch of disks to render them useless.. floppy drives barely ever fail, and the rest of the stuff should be fine (esp if you have tried 2 PC's)
I'd say just the disks are fubar.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: CraigRT
I bet something happened to the entire batch of disks to render them useless.. floppy drives barely ever fail, and the rest of the stuff should be fine (esp if you have tried 2 PC's)
I'd say just the disks are fubar.

oh well, just gives me a reason to throw away about 200 3.5" floppies i've been lugging around.

and no, there really is no data of subtance on any of them.

 

[TGHI]

Did you recently have any shorts? On my KT7-RAID, I blew the floppy controller, because the drive grounded itself on the exterior of the case...ever since then, not a single floppy drive has worked on that board. I thought it was pretty funny.


TGHI

 

[TGHI]

Oh..you tried two PCs....nevermind, then.

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Maybe a stupid idea, but did u really plug in the cable to the floppy the right way? Cause on many floppy drives u can actually plug it in both ways, with the marked wire left or right. I did that once and it took me ages to find out what as wrong with my floppy drive as neither in boot nor in windows it made any problems, but I just couldn't read any other floppies in this driver.

 

[CraigRT]

^ if you did that though, it shoudn't work at all. and usually the light stays on all the time.

who knows though

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: BlackMountainCow
Maybe a stupid idea, but did u really plug in the cable to the floppy the right way? Cause on many floppy drives u can actually plug it in both ways, with the marked wire left or right. I did that once and it took me ages to find out what as wrong with my floppy drive as neither in boot nor in windows it made any problems, but I just couldn't read any other floppies in this driver.

i've read from these floppies recently, before all the shenanigans started up. and it read fine.

 

[Sid59]

that sucks. get a USB Thumb Drive.

 

[bwnv]

I've had floppies do that after leaving my cell phone near them

 

[PlatinumGold]

ok, if they were formated fat and i tried to format them fat32, would they do that?

 

[JaydenChris]

no one has asked this yet, so i will.

what is it that you need to copy to a floppy that's so important not to either email or put on a different media?

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: JaydenChris
no one has asked this yet, so i will.

what is it that you need to copy to a floppy that's so important not to either email or put on a different media?

scsi drivers.

win2k3 server when installing insists that i put in floppies to install them.