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From: srg055@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Crowley)
Subject: Re: 3.5 floppy only reads what IT wrote
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In article <1434@netxcom.netx.com> pdressne@netxcom.netx.com (Peter Dressner) writes:
>I have a Gateway with a 3.5 floppy. The drive only reads files it
>wrote to the floppy. Floppies that have been formatted and 
>contain files from other machines are unreadable. Also, 3.5 floppies
>that were written by this defective floppy drive a long time ago are
>also unreadable.
>
>This sounds like a head alignment problem. How does one go about
>fixing it? Are there alignment screws that you can adjust?
>
>Thanks in advance for your responses.
>
>Peter

A friend of mine had the same problem, it turned out that his floppy was
set up as a 5 1/4 1.2Mb drive instead of 3.5 1.44Mb.....

might help...


Matt.

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