floppy drive- cannot format disks, but reads okay

Posted: 05-08-2004, 06:06 PM

john yessis

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Hi,

All of asudden i can't format a floppy disk, in drive a:
i can read disks okay. I can format new disks in another
computer, an dthen read in my drive.
I just swapped the disk drive, but the new one acts the
same.

Any ideas?

john

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