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blueshogun96

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A: Drive Of Doom
« on: February 02, 2005, 02:14:00 PM »
My moms computer has a destructive A:\ drive problem.  All of a sudden, now when you put a floppy in it, you hear a sweeping noise and it says that the drive can't read the disk.  Then when you try it on other computers, the disk is no good period.  Needless to say this sucks.  What should I do?
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XeroKitsune

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A: Drive Of Doom
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2005, 02:19:00 PM »
Cheap easy solution, replace the floppy drive. THey often run about $5 to $20. If yours has a strange face you may need to remove the front faceplate from the floppy drive to make it fit correctly.

YOu can try opening the drive and cleaning it with compressed air and rubbing alchol, but you may further damage the broken drive or only temprarly fix it.
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celinedrules

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A: Drive Of Doom
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2005, 02:20:00 PM »
Buy a new one, you can get them for under $10. New Egg
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thepissedoffman

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A: Drive Of Doom
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2005, 09:29:00 PM »
Floppy disk?

I forgot what those things were once I got my 1 gig USB flash drive.
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blueshogun96

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A: Drive Of Doom
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2005, 11:03:00 AM »
QUOTE(thepissedoffman @ Feb 3 2005, 04:35 AM)
Floppy disk?
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Dagoth

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A: Drive Of Doom
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2005, 04:14:00 PM »
QUOTE(blueshogun96 @ Feb 3 2005, 05:09 PM)
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention my mom has win98 so usb flash drives wont work.  I already tried it.  And it's no use upgrading to xp because my mom's hdd is only 3 gigs, and I ain't got the money to buy a bigger one.
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thepissedoffman

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A: Drive Of Doom
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2005, 04:59:00 PM »
QUOTE(Dagoth @ Feb 3 2005, 05:20 PM)
USB flash drives do work with windows 98, you just need the relevant driver for the USB drive.
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blueshogun96

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A: Drive Of Doom
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2005, 12:36:00 PM »
But where can I find a driver for win98?
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A: Drive Of Doom
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2005, 01:04:00 PM »
well if one didnt come with it.... go to the manufacturer's website... they should have drivers to download... and if they dont... use google.  If it is a brand name product... there should definitely be drivers on the net.
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blueshogun96

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A: Drive Of Doom
« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2005, 01:15:00 PM »
QUOTE(BinaryMod @ Feb 4 2005, 08:10 PM)
well if one didnt come with it.... go to the manufacturer's website... they should have drivers to download... and if they dont... use google.  If it is a brand name product... there should definitely be drivers on the net.
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thepissedoffman

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A: Drive Of Doom
« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2005, 01:55:00 PM »
QUOTE(blueshogun96 @ Feb 4 2005, 02:21 PM)
In that case, I'm out of luck.
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