"Floyd Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use floppies to transfer data between a Win98 machine and a DOS
> machine. I have two floppies that Scandisk will read, but Norton
> disk doctor on the DOS machine will not read. Scandisk finds
> nothing wrong with the floppies. The DOS machine will not read
> the floppies. This applies to two floppies only.
If those two were formatted on the newer machine of the two, it could be
that an older drive has a hard time reading them. Having been in the game
long enough to remember to transition from DSDD to HD diskettes (if that's
the right nomenclature), DSDD diskttes formatted in a 1.2MB drive often
could not be read by older DSDD drives.
Drift in the alignment of one drive or the other might cause similar
problems. Within tolerance to be read on the machine they were formatted on,
but just far enough off to throw the other off.
If all else fails, reformat those diskettes in the older drive and see if
they magically start working in both.
Hope this helps.
- Bob
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