MToolsFM

Harold Hartley haroldh at midmaine.com
Sun Jan 14 12:53:56 UTC 2007


Mike DePolis wrote:
> Yup, got one for you.  Follow these steps carefully and your problem 
> will be solved.
>
> 1)  Gently open computer case.  Be sure to save all screws / plastic 
> attachments.
> 2)  Disconnect power from floppy drive.
> 3)  Disconnect ribbon cable from floppy drive.
> 4)  unscrew, and remove floppy drive from case.
> 5)  Put floppy drive 10 yards down range from current position.
> 6)  Cock hammer, aim, pull trigger, make .44 go boom and dispatch floppy 
> drive from further existence. 
>
> Sorry, not trying to be a smart arse here, but floppies?  Really?
>
>
> Harold Hartley wrote:
>   
>> I installed mtoolsfm and used it to copy 3 files to floppies.
>> Since then, I have not been able to copy any dos files to floppy. I just 
>> keep getting an "input/output error" when I try to copy a file to floppy.
>> The disk is good, the drive is good but not able to get it to work right.
>> Does anyone have a solution to this problem.
>>
>> Harold
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
>
>   
Floppy drives are still made today and connect via USB ports and still 
sell flppy disk too..

Harold





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