Jun,

Most likely, the two drives are slightly out of alignment.  After a lot of
use, a floppy drive's heads (the thing that reads and writes data to the
drive) can go out of alignment.  This is usually not noticed until you try
to transfer data to another computer.  As long as you only use the floppies
you format on your computer, you're never likely to notice that the heads
are slightly out of alignment.

When you format a floppy on your machine and take it to another machine, if
one or the other drive's heads are out of alignment, the floppy will not be
readable.  Or you'll get a lot of errors like you described.

You can have one or both of the drives tested and realigned at a computer
shop, or depending upon which is more cost effective, simply purchase new
drives.

Let us know how it works out,
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Qian Jun <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, May 03, 1998 11:23 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Floppy drive differnce?


>Good morning to all.
>
>Can anyone tell me if there is any deffernce between different brand of
>standard 1.44mb floppy drive?
>
>I'm asking because i have problem to format floppy disks.
>
>I have a P233 mmx PC (same as my friend's PC but differnt monitor, whhh
>~~~, i don't have AOE) and an old 386 (8mb ram).  I need transfer some
>data (word 2.0 doc) from 386 to my new PC.  The problem is i can copy
>data from the floppy (to new computer) but when i tried to format (in
>"My Computer") the floppy (full format),  Win95 can't complete the task
>because reported a error on floppy (scandisk can't fix).  Then i ran
>norton disk doc on 386 to fix it, NDD reported directory structure error
>and lost chains.  After fix it, there was almost nothing on floppy.
>Then i format it on 386 (no problem at all), took it back to my new PC
>and tried to formant it again, same problem.  Then i tried other floppy,
>i found another one has same prblem and the rest are okay (they are all
>my old formatted floppy).
>
>so that i thought there maybe difference between floppy drive, is it
>ture (i hope not)???
>
>Thanks in advance
>