"Susanne J. Walsh" wrote:

> ... a DPS Electronics Tracer 600 laptop.  The 1.44 floppy drive
> is not working.  Most of the time it wants to format the disk in drive A
> because it says it is not formatted. ...
>
> Any ideas on how to correct this or do I need to replace the floppy drive?
> How difficult is it to replace a drive on a laptop? Where can I purchase a
> drive for a laptop?  I've worked on desktop systems for years, but never
> attempted a laptop.  Any guidance is greatly appreciated.
>
>

If cleaning the drive does not work I would check to see if I could disable the
drive in the BIOS. If the BIOS allows this then you could see if the computer
operated normal. Based on what I read about the computer (from here:
http://www.sunlink.net/~jays/notebook.htm) you can't slide out the drive. I'm
not familiar with the computer so I don't know about taking it apart but I will
say from some I've seen taking the FDD out can be hard and some easy.

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