Reformatting ?

[Vince]

Is there any way to reformat a floppy disc after it hyas already been used, without losing all information on the disc?

 

[redbolt]

No im affraid not my friend not that i know of

 

[clintonG]

Sure. Remove the data from the disk and put it onto a hard
drive temporarily. Reformat the floppy. Restore the data back to
the floppy. That would be the only way.


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Is there any way to reformat a floppy disc after it hyas already been

used, without losing all information on the disc?

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Is there any way to reformat a floppy disc after it hyas

already been used, without losing all information on the
disc?

.
I'm not sure why you want to reformat the floppy, but I

did, in the past, have trouble with reading some disc's,
and on my old PC ran scandisc and enabled me to then read
it. Though I'm no PC buff.

 

[Vince]

The reason I was asking about Reformatting is, I was keeping data from my work schedule on a floppy disc, then all of a sudden 1 day I could not get any information off of it. I was hoping that if you reformat the disc, it would possibly allow it. When I try to open the disc, it gives me the pop-up "The disc you are trying to open is unformatted or has been formatted by a Macintosh", or something like that. I was told by a fellow computer user, that you should always check to make sure the changes have been added to the disc, I was doing that when I started and had no problem, so I stopped doing it

So now, I guess I have to pay the price

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-----Original Message----
Is there any way to reformat a floppy disc after it hyas

already been used, without losing all information on the
disc

I'm not sure why you want to reformat the floppy, but I

did, in the past, have trouble with reading some disc's,
and on my old PC ran scandisc and enabled me to then read
it. Though I'm no PC buff