why do we format the Floppy???
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Floppy disks usually need to be formatted before you can use them, although some blank floppy disks come pre-formatted but at some point you will want to format your own. \n\nWarning: Formatting a disk removes all information from the disk.
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Formatting a computer is a destructive process that either:\na) removes the computers knowledge of where pieces of files are\nb) obliterates the hard drive as well, writing blank data over it.\n\nYou can't undelete these files: They aren't just flagged as ready for deletion as if you had just normally deleted it. The operating system has no idea where the files are any more.\n\nThe operation is irrecoverable unless you want to pay a data retrieval company a large amount of money (thousands of dollars) to get the data back.\n\nSorry!
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No way - a floppy disk can take files up to 3.5 mb that's about the size of a 3 minute long mp3
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Different systems use a different end of line character in the file formatting.  When a file is made and the program writes it out there are a few different end of line characters to choose from (depending on your operating system).  The program is writing it out with an end of line character that the conputer you are viewing it on reads as a ^M rather than an end of line.\n\nAre you viewing it on the same system as your program is writing it?  If so, then look in the program that you are making the page in and find the preference for end of line and change it.
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i'm afraid you've lost it already.........floppy disk are not so reliable in terms of data storage....they can be easily damaged....sensitive to temperature...and other electromagnetic elements...
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yea you could try to zip the file or just put it on a zip disk floppys are really small
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Backing up Configuration Information Using Floppy Disk Drives\nTo back up configuration information on a floppy disk (write-floppy), complete the following tasks in the privileged mode.\n\nNote: Only one copy of the configuration can be stored per floppy disk:\n\nEnsure that a disk is in the floppy drive and verify that the disk is formatted in DOS.\n\nSpecify that the configuration is to be written to the floppy drive.\n\nExample\nThe following example copies a configuration file from the PIX to a floppy disk:\n\nPIX# write floppy\n\nBuilding configuration...\n\n[OK]\n\nNote: A file name specification is not required because a default name is used.\n\nRestoring Configuration Information Using Floppy Disk Drives\nTo restore configuration information from a floppy disk (read-floppy drive), and complete the following tasks in the privileged mode:\n\nVerify that a disk is in the floppy drive.\n\nSpecify that the configuration is to be retrieved from the floppy drive.\n\nExample\nThe following example restores a configuration file from a floppy disk:\n\nPIX# config floppy\n\nCryptochecksum(unchanged): be224398 ac3ba233 23ab6543 4cde6ff2\n\nConfig OK\n\nNote: A filename specification is not required because a default name is used.\n\nBacking up Configuration Information Using TFTP\nTo backup configuration information on a TFTP network server (write-TFTP), complete the following tasks in the privileged mode:\n\nSpecify the TFTP server IP address, directory, and configuration file.\n\nSpecify that the configuration is to be written to the remote TFTP server.\n\nExample\nThe following example writes the configuration file to a TFTP server:\n\nPIX#tftp-server 10.1.1.2 /pixfirewall/config/new_config\n\nPIX#write net :\n\nTFTP write '/pixfirewall/config/new_config' at 10.1.1.2 on interface 1\n\n[OK}\n\nNote: Optionally one can use the write net 10.1.1.12:/pixfirewall/config/new_config command to accomplish the TFTP write.\n\nRestoring Configuration Information Using TFTP\nTo restore configuration information from a TFTP network server (read-TFTP), complete the following tasks in the privileged mode:\n\nSpecify the TFTP server IP address, directory, and configuration file.\n\nSpecify that the configuration file is to be retrieved from the remote TFTP server.\n\nExample\nThe following example retrieves the configuration file from a TFTP server:\n\nPIX#tftp-server 10.1.1.2 /pixfirewall/config/new_config\n\nPIX#config net :\n\n[OK}\n\nNote: Optionally you can use the config net 10.1.1.12:/pixfirewall/config/new_config command to accomplish the TFTP read
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i've a faint remembering of a DOS program i used long ago to split files for copying on floppy disks. It's name was split.exe\n\ni got it, it's available here (chapter Another Solution: Split.exe) but you can only split files on floppies and back.\nhttp://www.byte.com/documents/s=122/byt19990816s0007/index.htm
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Formatting erases everything, so if you are in Windows and want to format the disk with Windows while you are in it, it obviously wouldn't work. \nThe most user freindly way to format a hard drive (if you only have one) in my opinion is to go to the website of the manufacturer of the hard drive, download their floppy disk utility and boot from that to format the drive.
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Scratch the surface of the CD with a sharp object.  Scuffing it on concrete is also very effective.  There are also shredders for CDs.  Don't use an ordinary paper shredder though!\n\nBTW, formatting a floppy wasn't a good way to delete data.  Until the floppy was overwritten, the data was still there.
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Hi there:\n\nI answer this question all the time.\n\nHERE is a complete copy and paste of the last ANSWER I gave, which has all the information you need. As you state, you DO NOT WANT to format or scandisk or defrag, or anything that touches the tracks on your floppy !\n\nSEE below:\n\n@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@\n\nI lost my data I saved on floppy?\n\nI saved some email messages on a floppy disc and brought it home from work and went to look at them on my computer at home and when I tried to open the floppy it said disco not formatted would you like to format now yes no. Have I lost my data? What should I do?\nAdditional Details\n\nthey are no longer in my email. just on floppy. If i take it back to work will it work there it did the other day.\n\nBest Answer - Chosen by Asker\n\nHi there:\n\nYou have probably NOT lost any data.\nFloppy copy and read problems are VERY common, and people have forgotten how to use them and maintain them.\n\nI looked at the two other answers before mine. The first states that you lost everything. _ WRONG !!\nThe second states that you are using a different operating system ( WRONG -- a floppy is a floppy is floppy unless you are using a MAC vs PC, and even you would be smart enough to know that they are differnt !)\n[[ Another rare situation is where you are using an OLD, 3 1/4 inch floppy on one machine, and a "new" 3 1/4 inch floppy drive on another machine, since the DRIVES Themselves, are different FORMATS ( the operating systems ( DOS, WIndows would be the same, and understand both formatting systems, but the mechanical heads and tracks are different ! ) There a dozens of different Floppy read/writers, and different FORMATs and sizes. The first IBM PC shipped with no harddrive, no floppy, and 16K of ram. There was a big DIN plug identical to the old keyboard plug, that you plugged in a cable that went to your Audio Cassette player, to load programs.. Then came the full height, single sided, low density, 5 1/2 inch floppy, then the high density, then the low density, two sided floppy, then the two sided High density floppy. Then all of these were replaced with the LOW density 3 1/4 inch floppy, and later the High Density 3 1/4 inch.\nIFF you have a normal, modern 3 1/4 inch HIGH density disk writer at the office, and try to use it in the ancient 3 1/4 LOW density disk unit at home, the older low density machine will not know what the tracks on the floppy are - it will be reading two tinier high density tracks at the same time and get garbage data.\nThe odds of you having a 720 K floppy Machine at home, and a 1.44 Meg floppy Unit at work, are almost zero, but I thought I would mention it ! ) ]]\nThe second answer states to but the floppy BACK in the orginating computer, and this actually WOULD have a high success rate.\n\nTHE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO " NOT " scandisk, or defrag or touch the floppy in ANY WAY.\nMake your disk ' holy " at once, and prevent any writing of any kind, by flipping the little tab down so that BOTH HOLES on the corners are open ( holy disk ), so that your disk is protected from evil ( programs that WRITE or try to repair it- which would destroy YOUR data in the process of " repairing " the tracks -- they do not give a hoot about YOUR data, only in re-viving the useability of the disk -- BEWARE ! ! )\n\nThere are many precautions in using floppies. The first, is to ALWAYS FULL FORMAT ( not the silly "quick format" ) the disk before writing to it, even if it is NEW and out of the package...\n\nThe other problem is the LACK of use of ordinary floppy drive machines. They continually build up layers of dust, and when people DO go to use them, they gum up the heads with dirt. There are floppy cleaner disks available at most computer stores and dollar stores, and you SHOULD clean them if they have not been in use very much...\n\nAnother problem is the slight variation in the HEAD size, and the HEAD alignment, of different flop
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Hmm, it would seem that you tried to do something to a disk drive that doesn't exist.\n\nIf you're trying to do something with your floppy drive, that's the A:/ drive.  Your main hard drive is usually C:/ and your cd drive is either d:/ or e:/
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clean the drive, try again\nif no luck, the disk may have failed.\nfloppys are bad that way\nhave you tried scandisk on the floppy?
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The disc is either not formatted or bad or the floppy drive is bad.  The floppy disc maybe mac formatted NOT PC formatted or visa versa.  Hope this answers your question.
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No.  If there is data on it it is still formatted.  Your best bet is to try it in some other computers.  You might also try some disk recovery utilities to see if they can get what you need.\n\nBottom line though, stop using floppy disks -- they are horribly unreliable and flash drives are really cheap now.
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I'm a little confused about the wording, but if i understand you correctly, you are worried about installing a new Hard Drive on a computer that doesn't have a floppy disk drive correct?  If you are simply adding another hard drive to a computer, you don't have to format it.  Just attach the hard drive as specified in the directions (with the correct four pronged power cable and IDE/ATA/SATA cable) and make sure that the hard drive has the pin selector set at either "cable select" or "slave".  The computer does the rest.  No format needed.  Most hard drives come ready to plug in and use.
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Because every volume has it's own desktop. If you drag a file from the floppy to your desktop, it doesn't leave the floppy and go to your hard drive. It goes to the floppy's desktop. Eject the floppy and the file disappears along with it.