Computer Question!

[christa]

I have a "damaged" floppy disk - It is missing it's little metal sliding door that covers the inside disk part.

Anyway, I was wondering if I could still put it in my floppy drive? Anyone know?

I don't want it to get stuck or anything!

[Lady's Human]

It should be fine, but I would transfer the data to something else ASAP.

[christa]

It should be fine, but I would transfer the data to something else ASAP.

I plan to . . . so it shouldn't get stuck or anything?

Shew . . . that takes a load off!

[christa]

Good, it worked.

THANKS!

[Karen]

Whew! Glad you got the data off of it without incident!

[lizbud]

It should be fine, but I would transfer the data to something else ASAP.

I'll bet LH is breathing a big sigh of relief right now.

[Lady's Human]

The little metal cover is there to protect the media on the disc, nothing else. It greatly increased the life of discs over the 8 and 5 1/4 inch discs, which had no protection other than a soft cloth liner which actually trapped the dirt and made the discs life much shorter.

[Vette]

Ugh.. i hate floppy disks. i used to save a lot of my stuff on them. but i had
3 or 4 go bad on me. so i dont trust them at all anyore and avoide using them.

but i also had a disk that was in the same shape as yours. i just threw it away
despite what was on the disk. i didnt want to chance it getting stuck in my A:

[Laura's Babies]

Better transfer that data or whatever to something else.. Most computers you buy don't have a-drives on them anymore... I think you can order one with it though.. Neither of my computers have a a-drive now.

[Mixeddogsrock]

Yea The Driver should automatically load.. It did that for me when i replaced mine! good luck