Full Version: A: drive starts up and
From: basehorawards [#6]
22 May 2006
To: Puck (PUCKERBRUSH) [#3] 22 May 2006
Puck,
Dave beat me to the punch. My computer that runs my rotary engraver is not on the network so I have to save to a floppy anything I want on that computer and roll over in my chair (seems like there is a name for that) to load it. After doing that; until I kill and restart Corel it will do the same thing to me. I won't stop until I put (like you) any floppy.
From: Puck (PUCKERBRUSH) [#7]
22 May 2006
To: ALL
OK, put all the advise together and decided to put a new floppy in and bring up what was on it then changed it back to c: drive, didn't help so I took a floppy, put it in and turned the computer off so when I restarted it it found the a: drive and gave the message to take it out. So did that and it hasn't started back up yet so will see if that takes care of it.
Thanks,
Puck
From: Gary White (GARYWHITE) [#8]
22 Aug 2006
To: Puck (PUCKERBRUSH) [#7] 11 Sep 2006
From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#9]
22 Aug 2006
To: Gary White (GARYWHITE) [#8] Unread
From: Puck (PUCKERBRUSH) [#10]
11 Sep 2006
To: Gary White (GARYWHITE) [#8] Unread
Gary,
I lost the hard drive in this machine just recently and just went ahead and replaced the floppy drive when I put in the new hard drive. The new one works just fine.
Thinking it was the hard drive going bad and messing up the floppy.
Been working on getting everything back up and running so haven't been to the board much lately. Still fighting some things since I have files from close to 12 years ago that I still need to use often but am having a hard time finding them on old floppies or re-creating them which has been time consuming.
Thanks,
Puck
From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#11]
11 Sep 2006
To: Puck (PUCKERBRUSH) [#10] 11 Sep 2006
Been there, done that twice recently.
You have my sympathies.
As far as the floppies, memory says that the drives have changed. They now sense that a disk is not in the drive and report that immediately rather then three tries to read the disk.
What is working for me at the moment is an easy solution. I bought a USB hard drive case, installed an 80 gig drive in it and a USB 2 card in the computer. My backups are now on that drive which is shut except when it is in use. I was running it on USB 1.1 and it was OK, the USB 2 card sped it up an amazing amount. Just be sure that you do not have it set to synchronize, it will not allow you to disconnect it if you synchronize it.
EDITED: 11 Sep 2006 by HARVEY-ONLY