2/2/2024 0 Comments 3.5 floppy disk need to format![]() it will seem to go OK until the "meter" indicates that the copy is about 2/3 finished then the 3.5" drive will begin to repeatedly and noisily try to access the disk, and will eventually give up and say that the media needs to be formatted or that the file is corrupt. the computer WILL boot from this floppy, but the drive is not fine.Ĭan anyone give me advice as to what to do?ģ.5" floppy drive can not copy a large file.Ī small file will be read from the 3.5 floppy and copied to the hard disk OK, but if the file is large. One statement was that if the computer will boot from this floppy drive, then "the drive is fine" but the computer cannot read information from the drive. It did not consider the situation described below - which is what I sent them - where the drive is recognized. I presented this problem via email to Dell support and received an automated reply that considered only problems where the drive is not recognized. ![]()
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