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Problems with A drive...

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Whenever I try and save something on a disk, I get this message that says that the disk has to be formatted. This happens with every disk I try. Is this something that I can fix myself, or do I have to take it to the shop or something?

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Format the diskette. Put the diskette in and then right click your A drive and select Format.

 

The disk needs to be formated for it to be used.

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Format the diskette. Put the diskette in and then right click your A drive and select Format.

 

The disk needs to be formated for it to be used.

I've done this a few times and it keeps saying that the disk can't be formatted. And it happens with literally every disk I try, and they'll all work just fine on my laptop.

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Aren't new computers that are coming out lack the A drive?

 

Why exactly is that?

How useful is a medium that holds 1.44 megabytes?

For my papers.

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Floppy disks are garbage anyway, and not even worth the time or the struggle.

 

Pay $30 and get a USB flash drive for your keyring. It's fast, cheap, and has a ton of storage (the cheaper ones have 128 MB). The one I have (from Dell) even works across platforms, from PC to Mac, so it's infinitely more useful than putting up with the numerous CRC errors and TOC corruptions that come with floppy disks.

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