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07-15-2004, 08:10 PM
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Psycho
Location: NY
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Stupid Floppy Drive!!
Wat is up my homies-
... Well I built my new pc (hooray) Athlon 64 3200+ MSI K8n Neo Platinum 1 gig XMS ram 160 gb sata hdd dvd burner 9800 pro.. ne ways.. they all work fine.. but! The stupid FLOPPY DRIVE seems to be whack.. I mean My Computer sees it, but any disk I put in, it says it is not formatted and wants to format, and when I try to, it says that the disk cannot be formatted... whats going on?!?! please help.. and plz ask any questions for additional info.. T_T
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07-15-2004, 08:15 PM
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Psycho
Location: NY
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well I really dont need it, but its pissing me off that its not working on my beautiful machine.. my machine cant have such a stupid flaw...
AND actually.. I wanna do the 9800 pro to xt flash, and I need the floppy ... 
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07-15-2004, 08:19 PM
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Holy Knight of The Alliance
Location: Stormwind, The Eastern Kingdoms, Azeroth
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So then order another one. Floppy drives are notorious for being unreliable. They haven't really changed in the last 5+ years anyways, I mean, has anyone ever heard of a SATA floppy? Hell no you haven't. I mean, what's 8 bucks plus shipping? That's really all it costs to get a new floppy drive.
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07-15-2004, 08:42 PM
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Holy Knight of The Alliance
Location: Stormwind, The Eastern Kingdoms, Azeroth
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Yeah, it's entirely possible. One of my first computers was a gateway and the FDD crapped out on it within a week.
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07-16-2004, 06:01 AM
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I flopped the nutz...
Location: Stratford, CT
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sometimes floppy's through the XP interface are squirrley (I'm assuming you're running XP of course..)
when in doubt, open a command prompt and list the directory of A that way. I've had the GUI tell me the disk needs formatting, but then through command I could see and manipulate the files that existed.
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10-10-2004, 09:07 PM
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I flopped the nutz...
Location: Stratford, CT
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ahaha nice! not only did you search, but found the answer from a few months ago.
if this forum had a karma hack installed, you'd be getting some +'s from me hehehe. sweet!
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10-10-2004, 11:28 PM
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Fuckin' A
Location: Lex Vegas
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Many a time, your floppy drive's rotor will be different than another computer, therefore, the disk may read fine on the drive a disk was written on, and may not even read at all on another. You can buy a diagnostic disk that can straighten it out for you, but it's cheaper to replace the drive.
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10-11-2004, 12:46 PM
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Fuckin' A
Location: Lex Vegas
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Quote:
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