What are the error codes of floppy drive?

Answer 1

It means a bad spot was detected on the floppy when your computer tried to write or read data from the disk. Most of the time, the drive head that reads the data has become dirty, but sometimes there is physical damage. Rotate the disk in the sleeve. If you see scratches, dents, or folds on the surface, the disk is no good.

There is a floppy disk cleaning kit that can be used to clean the head. They have a white fibre disk in the floppy, instead of the plastic disk with brown magnetic coating.

To use a cleaning kit. Put a squirt of the head cleaning solution in the slot on the cleaning disk, insert it, and access the disk a couple of times (i.e. use the DIR command at the dos prompt). If you have no head cleaning solution, use rubbing alcohol. Don't saturate the disk, just make a wet spot. The disk will wipe the head wet/dry as it rotates.

It is possible to mark bad sectors and do data recovery on a floppy if necessary, but it requires an old copy of the Norton Utilities and some know how to do it.

Good luck.

Answer 2

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