You may also wish to verify that your BIOS is correctly set to identify
your floppy type.  For example, you have options for 1.2M floppy or
1.44M floppy (and other options too.)

Tony Mayer
Sysop
The Magic FunHouse BBS
http://bbs.magicom.net



E B Lund wrote:
> Alternately, you could have a bad connection or a bad drive.  A new drive
> can be had for about $20, so maybe that's a solution.  In the meantime,
> maybe if you check the connection and jiggle things around in the drive, you
> might work something lose.
>
> William Closure
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>
>>Date:    Fri, 17 Oct 2003 00:40:27 -0700
>>From:    David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Re: Write-protected floppies?
>>
>>  As I recall, the line in the drive's ribbon cable that carries the
>>write-
>>protect detection signal runs along one edge of the ribbon.  So damage to
>>the edge of the floppy drive ribbon cable can sometimes have this symptom.
>>
>>David Gillett
>>
>>
>>On 16 Oct 2003 at 10:01, Andrew Parrella wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I think this is an OS problem. I have Windows98 and
>>>regardless which application I am in, whenever I try
>>>to save to a floppy disk an error message pops up
>>>saying that the disk is write protected. I have tried
>>>several different disks (none of which are write
>>>protected) and the same message pops up. Why is this?!
>>>Thank you,
>>>Andrew Parrella
>
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