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Answered Mitsumi USB Floppy Drive read error

  • sábado, 2 de junho de 2012 04:15
     
     
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    I just got a Mitsumi USB floppy drive, and downloaded the driver to my Lenovo laptop X201 running Win7.  It shows up as drive A in "my computer."  However, when I click on it, I get an error box that says, "You need to format the disk in drive A: before you can use it. Do you want to format it?

    I am just trying to get access to files off my old floppies, so I don't think I should format (won't that erase the files on the disk?).  Any suggestions?

     

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  • sábado, 2 de junho de 2012 04:39
     
     
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    I just tried unclicking "Hide empty drives" under computer > organize> folder and search options > view.  Still no luck in reading.  One additional fact: I believe these floppies were used on an old Mac rather than an older PC.
     
  • sábado, 2 de junho de 2012 07:43
     
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    If they are Mac floppies you will need a conversion program.

    Try http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/.

     
  • sábado, 2 de junho de 2012 19:53
     
     
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    I think that got me closer, DominicP, thank you.  For some reason it continues to tell me that I have to format the disk.  Am I right that doing that would erase the current contents?

    later...

    I have now gotten some floppies to work--there seems to be more going on here; so thanks, DominicP!

    now I'm getting "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error." 

    Any thoughts?

    • Editado thhughes sábado, 2 de junho de 2012 20:34
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  • sábado, 2 de junho de 2012 22:48
     
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    The message about formatting is shown when Windows cannot read the disk. Either the disk is unformatted or is in a format Windows cannot recognise.

    Formatting would destroy any information on the disk.

    If the floppies are old they may have deteriorated. The I/O error indicates a problem with the floppy condition, or possibly a defective floppy drive.