Erwin Craps - IT Helps
Erwin.Craps at ithelps.be
Mon May 9 03:41:10 CDT 2005
Had this last week Don't know if it was the diskette, dust in the drive or something else. If you don't use the drive often there will be dust in the drive and that could scratch the first disk in the drive. Use another diskette and format the old fashion way. Goto a command prompt and type format a: That worked for me last week. Erwin -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 5:40 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Formatting diskettes Steve, I've had problems writing/formatting floppies but I only have older disks so I put it down to that. Maybe there's more to it? I just scrapped a box of old disks! John B. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 12:27 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: [dba-Tech] Formatting diskettes Dear Group, Have any of you tried to format a 3 1/2" floppy disk lately under Windows XP? I tried just now on four separate machines with three different diskettes. Every machine presented the message: Windows cannot complete the format. Any of you seen this behavior? Regards, Steve Erbach Scientific Marketing Neenah, WI www.swerbach.com Security Page: www.swerbach.com/security _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com