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

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.

Philadelphia, PA (Really Bensalem)

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