Mochatea396
Experienced Member
Hello group,
I need help with my 5.25” floppy drive in my 5150. The drive seems to only like formatting one disk I have. Trying to format over 15 disks from a box that all format fine on an Apple drive, the IBM only is able to format one. And it will format that one disk every time. AND transfer the system to the disk. All others it says something’s wrong with the disk. And when I try to copy files to the one disk it likes, it says the files copied fine, I can hear the head moving back and forth but when I look, the files aren’t on the disk. I try and make a directory on the disk, it says it made it but it’s not there. I would say the drive doesn’t appear to be writing but it just formatted it, and why only one disk? And it says the files copied fine. I understand disks go bad commonly but this drive is the only drive that doesn’t like them. I cleaned the drive heads with a qtip and alcohol also.
Any ideas why I’m experiencing this?
Thanks group.
I need help with my 5.25” floppy drive in my 5150. The drive seems to only like formatting one disk I have. Trying to format over 15 disks from a box that all format fine on an Apple drive, the IBM only is able to format one. And it will format that one disk every time. AND transfer the system to the disk. All others it says something’s wrong with the disk. And when I try to copy files to the one disk it likes, it says the files copied fine, I can hear the head moving back and forth but when I look, the files aren’t on the disk. I try and make a directory on the disk, it says it made it but it’s not there. I would say the drive doesn’t appear to be writing but it just formatted it, and why only one disk? And it says the files copied fine. I understand disks go bad commonly but this drive is the only drive that doesn’t like them. I cleaned the drive heads with a qtip and alcohol also.
Any ideas why I’m experiencing this?
Thanks group.