Apostrophe
Well-known member
Hi,
Right now, I have one of my SEs on. The one I have on is the one whose hard drive needs reformatting due to the fact that it takes 1 min 40 secs to load programs like Microsoft Word. Anyway, I turned it on to make backups of the stuff I want to keep. And every floppy disk I put in is annoying the heck out of me!
Okay, a while ago I posted here about most of the 800k floppy disks in my room becoming unreadable. But this is becoming ridiculous. They are failing left and right, even brand new ones. Most floppies I put in flash up a dialog box asking if I want to initialize this unreadable disk. And every time I click Yes, I get the message "Initialization Failed!" And I was wondering: is there a chance that the floppy drive of that SE is destroying disks?
I'd have a whole stack of 800k disks in my hand, feeding them in one at a time. In a stack of 10 disks, 3 would work. But here's the real stumper: they fail while in the SE. The disk icon would be on the desktop, and I'd be surfing through the hard drive for folders small enough to fit on the disk, and then, all of a sudden, the icon vanishes and I get a message telling me that "the disk can no longer be used by your Macintosh." It ejects.
So I have two questions here: 1) is it possible for a floppy drive to destroy disks? and 2) is there anything I can do to the damaged floppy disks to get them readable again?
This is driving me crazy!!! Please help!!!
-Apostrophe
EDIT: A sudden thought: does this sound like the symptoms of a dirty drive head?
Right now, I have one of my SEs on. The one I have on is the one whose hard drive needs reformatting due to the fact that it takes 1 min 40 secs to load programs like Microsoft Word. Anyway, I turned it on to make backups of the stuff I want to keep. And every floppy disk I put in is annoying the heck out of me!
Okay, a while ago I posted here about most of the 800k floppy disks in my room becoming unreadable. But this is becoming ridiculous. They are failing left and right, even brand new ones. Most floppies I put in flash up a dialog box asking if I want to initialize this unreadable disk. And every time I click Yes, I get the message "Initialization Failed!" And I was wondering: is there a chance that the floppy drive of that SE is destroying disks?
I'd have a whole stack of 800k disks in my hand, feeding them in one at a time. In a stack of 10 disks, 3 would work. But here's the real stumper: they fail while in the SE. The disk icon would be on the desktop, and I'd be surfing through the hard drive for folders small enough to fit on the disk, and then, all of a sudden, the icon vanishes and I get a message telling me that "the disk can no longer be used by your Macintosh." It ejects.
So I have two questions here: 1) is it possible for a floppy drive to destroy disks? and 2) is there anything I can do to the damaged floppy disks to get them readable again?
This is driving me crazy!!! Please help!!!
-Apostrophe
EDIT: A sudden thought: does this sound like the symptoms of a dirty drive head?