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How are floppy drives formatted?
The actual floppy drive itself is not formatted. The drive only spins the floppy disk or diskette. One can format a disk or diskette from the computer control panel. Right click on Drive A (for example), then select format and follow the screen prompts.
Is it possible for a floppy drive to change the format of a floppy disk from FAT to RAW and can this be corrected?
Yes it is possible to change the format of a floppy disk from FAT to RAW if the operating system on the PC, which the floppy is to be formated is using but the RAW format than the flopy will have the RAW format at the end of formating the floppy
To format a hard drive in a laptop normally you'd use the floppy drive but the laptop hasn't got one How do you format please?
Floppy drive? I have never used a floppy drive to format a HDD. If you're trying to format the internal drive that contains your core system files then you can use a Windows XP installation disk to format it. If not then you can use the Ultimate Boot CD. This CD is burnable using Alchohol 120 and you can boot into it and it contains a HDD wiper. I'm sure it also comes with a format function. I will provide you with the link to download it below.
How do you format a floppy disk?
Start->My Computer->Right click on the floppy drive->Format. There are two kinds of formatting. The first one is "fast" which takes only couple seconds and good with new floppy disk or trusted used ones. The second one is "long" and includes the low level formatting and it can take couple minutes.
How do you format window XP drive c?
If your OS is located at C: drive then you will have to use a bootable floppy or CD. After booting from floppy or CD,you can go to command prompt and them type format C: And if your OS is not located at C then you can do that while running windows xp.
What is disk read?
Hard Drive:Possibly because your filesystem is broken or corrupt. TO FIX: MUST HAVE WINDOWS INSTALL DISK/RESTORE, THEN REINSTALL, MUST HAVE ACTIVATION KEY FOR REINSTALL! CD/DVD DRIVE: WORN OUT DISC, BROKEN CD/DVD PLAYER, CORRUPT/BROKEN OR NO FILESYSTEM, NO FILESYSTEM AS IN YOU NEED TO FORMAT THE DISC OR REPLACE YOUR CD/DVD DRIVE OR REPLUG IDE PLUG. FLOPPY DISK:NO FLOPPY IN DRIVE, BROKEN/DAMAGED DRIVE, CORRUPT OR UNFORMATTED DISK, UNPLUGGED IDE ON MOTHERBOARD. FIX: FORMAT FLOPPY, REPLACE FLOPPY DRIVE, PUT FLOPPY IN DRIVE. Disk read error is because your Harddisk's/CD/DVD drive/Floppy Drive is broken, corrupt, missing, unformatted or unplugged.
Do you need to format a disk each time you use it?
No. Floppy drisks do not need any formatting at all. Just pop it into the floppy drive and that's all you need to do.
How do you format a disc in A drive?
You go to My Computer and right click Floppy (A)and click Format. A dialog will appear and after selecting the right options for you (quick/full format, label etc.) you click Start.Note: A floppy disk must be in the drive A: for this to work.First you are going to need a command prompt. From the start button win7 in the search field type (cmd). Then from the command prompt type format A:
How do you transfer files to a floppy disk?
1. Insert the floppy disk into the drive.2. Open "My Computer"3. Double-click the floppy drive icon.4. Drag and drop the files you want to the floppy disk, or right-click the files, select "Copy", and right-click in the floppy disk folder and select "Paste."If number 3 returns an error that the disk is not formatted, right-click the floppy drive icon and select "Format."
How do you format your drive c?
Boot from something OTHER than C: The OS will not allow you to format the disk from which the computer has currently loaded. Many OS disks will allow you to reformat the C: drive, and you can even create a bootable floppy that has format capability.
You dont have a floppy drive how do you add pics from a floppy disk?
By buying a floppy drive. You can buy an external USB floppy drive for under $50.
How do you make bootable floppy disc of window NT?
From which platform? From a Windows platform, insert the floppy into your disk drive. You can do this any number of ways but I'll give you the two easiest for me: 1. Right click on start, hit explore, drag your data to the disk drive. It will copy it, not move it. Remove disk. 2. In the program that opens the data you want to transfer (so perhaps Word for a paper you wrote), have the data open in the window, click on File, Save As, and Save it to your floppy drive (usually drive A). Close program. Remove disk.
