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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Alternative Operating Systems => Topic started by: jjans on April 17, 2005, 03:11:10 AM
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Is it me, or my imagination, or is anyone else experiencing a noticable a tendancy for XP to kill 1.44MB/880K Floppies during write operations?
My machine eats floppies like I go through pizza (and beer)...
The funny thing, is that I have been able to repair many of these disks using an older Win98 machine, or even the old 880 K floppies with Amiga's MSH or CROSSDOS(ironic or what???).
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I haven't noticed that, so much as I've noticed that XP prefers to FORMAT the disks, instead of letting me pull files off the disk. For some reason, it thinks the disk is unformatted.
The ironic thing is that the disks are usually formatted on my OTHER XP box.
Weird...
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Bad floppy drive?
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Yeah, sounds like a bad floppy drive. I had the same problem and replaced the drive, and now everything is fine.
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In my opinion, the problem is led to the very bad mechanic quality of actual floppy drive.
In the last years I've changed a lot of them with poor success. Just few days ago I've found an old floppy drive that worked very well, recovering ALL disks that previous floppy drives seemed to have burnt, both with Win98 and WinXP (or 2000).
Well... yersteday it has nearly taken fire for a poor contact on the power contact: a disaster! So, now I have to find another good "old" floppy drive... :-x
Alex
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I don't think floppy drives arent built as well as they used to be, because companies are trying to phase them out they decide that good quality isn't as important as it used to be when it comes to floppy drives.