Hi all, My father has given me a Tandy 1100FD laptop with a faulty floppy drive to fix up. From what I've read online, it's likely that the rubber belt inside...
Did you have any luck with this? ... Usually this means the power is on or there is residual power in the device being tested. Neil ... reach the power switch....
... drive to ... inside ... it ... disks ... look, ... these ... Not sure about the belt. IIRC this is a rebadged Panasonic. Search on comp.sys.tandy found...
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On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 20:36:43 +0100, "Steve Oliver" <steveeeeelj@...> had a flock of green cheek conures squawk ... All the 3.5 floppy drives I've seen...
You should be able to read the disks on a modern floppy drive. You need to go through hoops to create a 720k floppy, but should be able to read them. I can...
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:41:43 -0000, "Neil Morrison" ... Right click on a 3.5 floppy and select format with a 720k floppy in the drive, you will only see...
... Try going to a command prompt and typing FORMAT /? The commandline format command has *always* had more options than the format option under drive...
... But that's in Winders. This is the command line version: - Formats a disk for use with Windows XP. FORMAT volume [/FS:file-system] [/V:label] [/Q]...
Hallo, About problem 1: The drive may be spinning, but not at the correct speed. If the belt is slipping, rotation speed drops and a disk cannot sunc any more....
Hi all, Thanks for the replies. They're the original Tandy software disks and I don't want to try formatting them unless I absolutely have to, and if I know...
You can take a piece of scotch tape and create a 720k floppy by taping over the square hole opposite the one with the sliding door inside it. I can't recall...
Hallo, So? FORMAT volume [/V:label] [/Q] [/F:size] doesn't work anymore, because F: only accepts 1.44, and no more 720, but FORMAT volume [/V:label] [/Q]...
Under no circumstances erase any originals. You may have the last working copies on earth! You may need to use an image writing utility to write the floppies, ...
Hi again. I almost forgot. There is a program that's called Disk Duplicator that I have a copy of which makes a mirror image of the original disk. (actually...
Hi y'all. Again, it may sound kind of artsy/craftsy, but I just tape over the identifier hole on a 1.4mb floppy and it works as a 720k floppy every time. I...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200151181018 20 DD for $1 plus S&H! Neil ... tape over the identifier hole on a 1.4mb floppy and it works as...
... 1.44 floppies have a second hole ooposite the write-protect hole. 720k floppies on't have that hole. -- Leonard Erickson (aka shadow) shadow at shadowgard...
... That's actually a bad idea. The media is different. 1.44 (and 1.2 for that matter) floppies require different properties than the lower density ones. While...
Hi again. Actually its been working for me for years. The medium is the same. It's iron oxide on mylar. The path of the recording is just narrower and...
... It isn't that different. You are better with the proper disks, but it isn't like 360K / 1.2 M - they were very different - impossible to ue in the wrong...
... Duplicator that I have a copy of which makes a mirror image of the original disk. (actually mirror image is kind of a misnomer). If there aren't any...
Using 1.44MB can work, but it's not reliable since the 720k drive head isn't powerful enough to properly magnetize the media. They have a tendency to lose the...
Hi again. There isn't anything mysterious or arcane about it. A 1.4mb diskette will format at 720k just fine. I use a lot of the 1.4mb diskettes as 720k and...
... The difference in coercivity between 360K and 1.2 Mb is 300 to 600. The difference in coercivity between 720K and 1.44 Mb is 600 to 720. The second is...
... No, it has different magnetic properties, Really. It's not as bad as the different between regular and "metal" tape (for those who go back that far) but...
Hallo, You are right, it will probably work. But what other have been saying is true also: the specification for the magentic induction force that orientates...
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