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"no floppy in drive"
I have an old Panasonic CF-25 laptop with Win 98 which I bought used
recently to do odd jobs and as a backup to my new P4 desktop. It has removable CD and floppy drives which fit into the same slot. After I loaded all my required software with the CD I inserted the floppy drive so I could have a data backup. I took one of the floppies I was using on the desktop to use for this purpose. Since I wasn't sure how old the floppy was I decided to format it on the laptop just to be sure it was good and there were no compatibility problems. Now the strange part. The laptop can read the floppy off My Computer, and can save and read from it. But when I try to format it keeps telling me there is no floppy in the drive or the door is open, both of which are definitely not true. Even though the floppy does work as backup, this failure to find it for format makes me nervous. Do I have a software problem, is there a physical problem with my drive, or am I missing something obvious and simple? |
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