Re: can do i copy from a disk?

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From: *Vanguard* (no-email_at_bogus-domain.nix)
Date: 02/05/04 

Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 08:46:40 -0600

"Robert Tuck" said in news:e$cSLW36DHA.1596@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl:
> The floppy disk may be bad. Try copying files one at a time.
>
> "mskwby" <kwby1@syrupcity.net> wrote in message
> news:7A63C075-728E-4747-8A10-2DA1898992E7@microsoft.com...
>> I am new at computers, please tell me how ( in plain english) how i
>> copy
> from a disk? I have tried, put in the in disk drive, clicked on
> start menu, went to my computer, clicked on disk drive, another
> window came up, copy to or copy from, to clicked on copy from, it
> started to read the disk, got half way through and then another
> window popped up and said unable to read disk......now what! PLEASE
> help me!

If the destination "drive" was a diskette (aka floppy) then maybe it was
never formatted. It's impossible from mskwby's description to know if "half
way" was when the OS started to copy files or some files had already been
copied and then the failure occurred. 

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