Re: raw file system ?

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Hi Bill,
Thanks for showing your interest. I have just responded to Poprivet that I
will now learn to live without floppies, most of my historical floppy data
have been transferred to external HDD, thumbdrives, SD and CF cards and
DVD's. It 's just that I missed the experience of loading a floppy into the
drive and listen to the twirlling sound generated. Once again, thanks for
assistance and guidance.
--
oldman trying to understand computers


"Bill Blanton" wrote:

The easy/inexpensive thing to try would be to give the drive a good cleaning.
Although it's possible that you got a bad batch as Poprivet suggested, that
really is a small chance.

You could try formatting a floppy from a DOS boot disk. If that also fails, you'll
know that it has nothing to do with the OS. Boot with a bootable 98 DOS disk,
which you could obtain from bootdisk.com. (of course you'll want to create
the disk on another machine). After the machine is booted, remove the boot
disk, insert the new disk and at the A:\> prompt, type
format A:

As far as prolonging the lives of your floppys, I'd suggest storing the files
directly on the HDD. Another option would be to create an image using a virtual
solution such as Virtual PC or perhaps Virtual Floppy Drive.




"oldman" <oldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:C6FC39B3-7C6E-4C67-ACCB-ADB3F991D6AE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Bill,
I tried but didn't get very far, here's what happened.
I tried to prepare a new floppy to be the desination disk, it was loaded and
the usual response from the system is that the disk is not formatted would
you like to proceed which I did and the result was that it cannot be
formatted, I tried on a few blank floppies and result is still the same. My
floppy A drive cannot format a brand new floppy. Not satisfied I load the
one and only useable floppy disk in and I was able to access and update those
files and documents in it - conclusion my floppy A drive is alive and
kicking. I was not able to try copy disk on my ancient floppy game disk. My
assessment is that after XP SP2 updates, changes made to the operation of
floppies resulted in rendering the system unable to format new floppies thus
accelerating the demise of floppies (I read somewhere that a major UK
computer store will in the near future stop stocking floppies). Any
assistance in temporarily prolonging the lives of my floppy collections will
be appreciated.
--
oldman trying to understand computers


"Bill Blanton" wrote:

The (small) hope was that the copy process would succeed in producing
a disk that was error free. If you're able to read the directory, it is not in
Raw.format.

"oldman" <oldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:FF681842-236D-4361-81E8-22114C3B92A0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The floppy disk drive works fine, the only problem was this ancient RAW
formatted disk that the system was unable to accept. Isn't copying to another
floppy disk (assume able to copy disk) would require the floppy disk drive to
accept RAW format (unless when copying, the system will convert the resultant
copy being in a format acceptable by the system). Nevertheless I thank you
for the guidiance.
Thanks and regards

"Bill Blanton" wrote:

Try cleaning the hardware with a floppy disk head cleaner after blowing it
out with compressed air.

If that doesn't work..try copying the floppy to another.
Right click (A:\)> Copy Disk...


"oldman" <oldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:8C664DB2-9A11-4E7C-B584-513003693764@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have an ancient floppy -Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack (Disk format:
High-density(1.44MB) Version 1.0 which I tried to load through my floppy
drive A connected by USB to my PC (XP+MCE). I scanned the floppy with AVG and
was reported clean, I than clicked Drive A for properties and noted that the
disk was formated under RAW. I next left clicked Drive A and the directory of
the floppy was displayed, I than left clicked Setup and the problem ocurred,
the system came back with an error message that the floppy is to be
formatted, I was never able to get rid of this error message (my event viewer
indicated warning sfloppy event51 and error sfloppy event7) in the end there
was a stack of this error notifications and my PC hung. I hope this will
provide more information to Ken Blake with the view to assist II
--
oldman trying to understand computers


"II" wrote:

what is raw file system and why my floppy disk was changed to this system
from fat file system without my knowledge making it not useable?

i tried to format it by my pc does not allow it.













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