G'day, it's your floppy drive.
Give it a massage(PM)(Prevenative Maintenance),
Take it out, take it apart, carefully clean it, check all the sensors,
reseat all the connectors, reassemble it, clean the heads.
if that doesn't work, replace it.
Cliff Rogers   (Computer Technician)  email  [log in to unmask]
Home Page http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/9176/
Absolute Computers Pty. Ltd. Cairns, Queensland, Australia. [log in to unmask]
Work Page http://www.cairns.net.au/~absolute

> 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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> No Matter Where You Go......
> There You Are!