I doubt that's what Train had in mind. I guess I'm happy for you, never having anything go bad ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Robert M.
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Open your mind, not your computer.
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I doubt that's what Train had in mind. I guess I'm happy for you, never having anything go bad ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Robert M.
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Open your mind, not your computer.
Thanks Meldan24 for quoting my signature message, I think the more often people see it, the better.
I had a computer monitor fail once but never a motherboard, memory module, floppy drive, hard drive, adapter card, modem, mouse or CD-ROM drive.
Robert M, I was being polite earlier when I asked you to lay off the arguing. Since you don't have PMs enabled and since you won't let this bone go, I'm telling you bluntly: Knock it off. No one appreciates having their thread hijacked by someone who wants to argue. Maybe you've never had something go belly-up, or won't admit to it, but others have.
Also, I didn't think meldan24's post needed explaining, but maybe it does. It looks to me as if he was telling you to practice what you preach.
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Originally Posted by Robert M
Then you have had extremely good luck which is most unusual with computers.
But when I run across clients who have had that luck, generally it means they do not USE their computers very much. To wit, maybe a little email, a page or two of surfing a month or even, never getting on the internet.
lgbpop,
It's also against the rules of the forum to deliberately mislead people with false information.
I am merely letting the truth shine.
I assume you will send others in this post the PM messages saying the same thing to them if they are not disabled, if not, you should give them heck here and now as well.
Train,
I use a couple different computers for an average of about three hours a day, and am not extremely lucky. I have terrible luck as a matter of fact. Many millions of people have NEVER had to replace any hardware.
I didn't nor will I send others the same message. You weren't called to task for your opinion - it's because of the rudeness with which you put down everyone's opinion but your own. The person who started this thread had a legitimate question, and people who answered it had legitimate answers, skewered by you as hogwash. This is rude and disruptive.
If you're going to bring up the AUP, so will I:
Why you feel the need to act this way is beyond me; it's not appreciated. I expect this will be the end of the disruption.Quote:
You will not behave in an abusive and/or hateful manner, and will not harrass, threaten, nor attack anyone.
i have tried different cmos settings for the drive it dosnt help me at all i also do have a data recovery program for floppys havent tried it yet
In my experience floppies have a 10-20% failure rate in a short space of time.
I wonder, perhaps you could get some replacement disks on ebay, might be worth a look.
But what everyone seems to forget is that these original floppy disks are at least 15+ years old 5 1/4 1.2 megabyte format. All magnetic media fails, period! All electronics fail too.
Nothing lasts forever, not even us.
How many of you actually have a computer that is currently capable of reading the 5 1/4 1.2 meg media that the original posters disks are on, if you are old enough to remember that?
Not very many!
Any at all?
I bet not!
My C64 disk drive used to read those sort of floppys, even a whole bunmch that had been submerged in muddy water and then in clean water a few times to clean the mud out and then left to dry.
Then I lent the C64 and all software etc to my parents for my younger syster to learn touch typing and when she moved out of home they threw it out !!!!!!!!
But that was at least 15 years ago.
I've got a working (last time I plugged it in - about 2 years ago) 5 1/4 drive in a box in my garage. Also got a bunch of disks, only 50% of which could be read last time I tried.
i managed to get a copy of ms-dos 4.01 and windows 386 on 3.5 inch floppy drive
Make some copies quick :D