Re: Copying from A drive in W2K


"ms" <ms@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My floppy drive has never given any problems, fairly new.

This morning I moved files from floppies to my hard drive, no problem with
about 25 floppies in sucession.

Accidently the power was shut off. I booted up, apparently W2K does not do
scandisk, it started normally.

The problem started shortly after that, so maybe it's related.

I would move a file, the A drive would run, keep on running, the file
would
not move, finally had to shut down as I could not end task.

I then booted up, cleaned cache, shut down normally, rebooted, and same
problem with floppy. I have 512 MB RAM, 380 MB free. It's hard to believe
I'm loading the processor with the floppy operation.

Advice?

ms

As an alternative to John's suggestion: Stop using floppy disks.
They are slow, unreliable and they have very limited capacity.
Buy some flash disks (memory sticks) - they are far superior
to floppy disks in every regard.


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