oh how i love floppys!!!

azezil

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">A:\ is not accessible

Data error (cyclic redundancy check)</font>

any known cure??

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"just because you're not paraniod, doesn't mean they're not after you!"

Gerry

Yeah, douse it in lighter fluid and burn it.

Dr. Loon

Try scandisk the fúcker...otherwise it's a coaster.

deRanged

just to go off-topic - apparently in south africa they call 3.5 inch diskettes "stiffies".
We found this out a couple of days ago when the new (south african) guy asked one of the lads for a stiffy.

beaver

Crude as it sounds, I've resurected broken disks by sliding back the cover and blowing compressed air into them, while rotating the disk within by hand.

Just plain blow into it if you gots no compressed air... unless you're a spitty person...

-Ross

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When I was young my mother told me not to look into the sun; so once, when I was six, I did...

jaarius

here is a cure for your problem in 3 easy steps!

1) remove the poptart from the A:\ drive

2) get a zip drive

3) remove any evidence of there ever being a floppy drive anywhere close to the machine.

that should fix it


j

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"Why not put the match in a shark tank, with real live sharks, hungry sharks, and the only way to beat your
opponent is to stuff them down a shark's throat and pin a shark".
-Kurt Angle to Lilian Garcia

phaxx

I got pretty annoyed with floppies a few months ago, ripped my floppy drive out, binned it, and that's the end of it. I can get everything I need off the net anyway.

If you must use floppies, make about three copies of the files you need on it. Not messing, you should!

Gerry

This is true phaxx. I remember all too well the agony of having 4 win2k bootdisks, all of which scandisk fine, but then die mysteriously. To get 4 which actually worked in a row took me hours. Argh.

phaxx

The wonders of bootable cds, eh? Couldn't live without them. I remember doing that, Gerry with NT4. *rolls eyes* That was fun, alright. Another thing that bugged me was the way 9x handles floppies - awfully. System will usually slow to a crawl on floppy access, and, if there's any kind of read error, it'll bluescreen. That's stability for you, eh?