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| Thread ID: 33501 | 2003-05-17 21:40:00 | floppy's | multi (3822) | Press F1 |
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| 145284 | 2003-05-17 22:54:00 | I dont have a scanner yet though. To put a picture on a floppy in the first place it must be on your computer? |
Steve Askew (119) | ||
| 145285 | 2003-05-17 22:59:00 | I was going to get the pics developed straight on to the disc at the photo place though | multi (3822) | ||
| 145286 | 2003-05-17 23:10:00 | Re Square holes. Only 1 should have a slider on it - left one should be covered. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 145287 | 2003-05-18 00:40:00 | There seems to be some conflicting advice here multi, so starting from the beginning: 1) Looking at the top of the disk with the front facing away from you, the left-hand hole has a sliding cover and should be closed. The right-hand hole is always open. 2) Try any other floppy disk and see if you can read the contents. Use Windows Explorer and double click on floppy disk A:. Watch and see if your disk drive light comes on and if it doesn't, go to 5. 3) If the light does come on, your computer is at least trying to access the disk in that drive so look in the Explorer window to see the contents of that disk. If nothing appears, the disk is either empty or you could have a drive reading problem. To check this go to 4: 4) Either open a file in your WP and save a copy to A:, or drag and drop any small file to A: using Explorer. The drive light should come on and you should hear the disk writing the file. Repeat step 3 and see if the file appears. If it does, try the same with your suspect floppy and if you don't get the file appearing, dump the disk as it is probably knackered. 5) If your drive doesn't show any signs of life at all, reboot your computer and watch the initial screens to see if the floppy drive is being recognised. You should see a brief reference to "1.44 mb floppy drive A:" appear at some point. If it doesn't, reboot again and go into the setup screens. There are several ways of doing this so check your computer or motherboard manual. DRCSPY mentioned one way of getting to them. Once you are there, check that your floppy disk drive is enabled. If it is, then it may have died. They cost peanuts so either buy another or take your computer to a suitable repair shop and get it checked/replaced. To shortcut the whole process and save a lot of uncertainty, you could always take your floppy to another computer and get it checked, though that won't tell you if your floppy drive is not enabled in the setup screens. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 145288 | 2003-05-18 01:20:00 | Cheers Billy I think you just covered everything. I appreciate your help talk to ya soon ha? I'll let ya know what happens..... | multi (3822) | ||
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