Seen it before.  Sounds like the drive was out of alignment and would work
with disks but didn't write to them correctly but no other drive would read
from them.  Like a VCR with bad heads.  May be able to recover the data with
Norton or other system recovery utility or maybe hook the old drive back up
and try to copy it off that way.

Dave Jones
http://www.vdoguy.com

Camel: A horse designed by committee


> Right after that my floppy disk drive stopped working.  I ran the Full
> Restore once again, to no avail.  Because of the high pitch noise the
> floppy drive caused, I believe it was a hardware problem (I got this
computer in
> 1998).
>
> I went to Comp USA and I purchased their '3.5" floppy drive bonus kit' and
> I installed it.  The bonus was a cable and 2 faceplates.
>
> HOWEVER, the drive will not read other disks I have recorded before.
> First it get a message to the effect that the disk is not formatted, then
the
> query if I want it formatted - and then the disk is unreadable/corrupted
and
> cannot be formatted.
>

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