>I have had a number of floppies (some new) become unreadable and also >failed reformatting? Some I have written on and now they are unreadable. >What is going on here, why do floppies fail? > >> Floppies fail because they have moving parts. Just as CD-ROM drives >> fail and >> hard drive do. > >They are also sensitive to being heated (left on a monitor or a window >for a while) and EM radiation (on top of a monitor or a magnetic >screwdriver or similar items). >
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