I have a Compaq 5660 computer which got infected by a virus.  In order
to get rid of the virus I ran the Quick Restore disk, Full Restore
function.

Right after that my floppy disk drive stopped working.  I ran the Full
Restore once again, to no avail.  Because of the high pitch noise the
floppy drive caused, I believe it was a hardware problem (I got this computer in
1998).

I went to Comp USA and I purchased their '3.5" floppy drive bonus kit' and
I installed it.  The bonus was a cable and 2 faceplates.

HOWEVER, the drive will not read other disks I have recorded before.
First it get a message to the effect that the disk is not formatted, then the
query if I want it formatted - and then the disk is unreadable/corrupted and
cannot be formatted.

Any suggestions as to what I can do?  Are there different types of
floppy disk drives?

Thank you so much for any and all assistance.  I appreciate it.



--- Nelida Lopez Hinchee

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