Re: A drive

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"Charles" <Charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...
I cannot get the a drive to work. it wont read a disk that I know is good.
I
troubleshooted the A drive but it says that is working fine.

Floppy drives can get out of alignment so they cannot read from disks
created on other drives, and other drives may not be able to read disks
created on the bad drive.

Buy a new floppy drive. They're cheap.


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