Sue,

 Did you try to save the same info to the floppy you re-formatted to see if
it now works?

 I don't know about your dos program (or much about dos at all!), but I own
an old Sony Mavica camera that uses floppies to record images and every so
often I would get one that I could not read (sometimes after succesfully
opening the files repeatedly before). I just wrote it off as an inherant
flaw with floppies. I probably should research a little to test my theory
(which I will do now). But I'm curious why not use another media such as a
thumb drive.

not much help but good intentions,

 Phil

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Sue <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi Lister,
>
> Here is a funny question for you.
>
> This happened twice on two different setups.
> 1. brother printer connected via usb on gateway running windows 2000
> 2. epson laserjet 1500 printer conencted vial parallel port on a IBM aptiva
> running win 98 1st edition
>
> Both machines have the same dos program,
> a floppy was inserted and a blank page printed.
> Took another floppy with  data originating fromt he same dos program and it
> printed well.  Recreated the data on the non printing floppy onto another
> and it printed.  Formatted the non printing floppy and it showed all was in
> order.
>
> Why?
>
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