Floppy drives get like that with age.  Just replace it, or
keep turning your disks until the thing totally dies.

Rick & Kay McCune wrote:
>
> I have developed a little problem and I was hoping that you could help me
> with it......From time to time, when I insert a 1.44 floppy in the drive to
> either read or write (to or from the disk), it gives me this message:"The
> disk in drive A is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" This
> happens on known formatted disks. I have also discovered that if I turn the
> disk (from the bottom side) just a hair, it then recognizes it as being
> formatted. Could it be that my drive head is slighty mis-aligned???? Or am I
> dealing with something from the Twilight Zone!!!!!!!   TIA
>
> Rick & Kay McCune
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