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Yeah, you really know where your data is. I have fond memories of saving documents to a floppy, walking to the library to print only to find an empty floppy dis
by Moru 3y ago
Yeah, you really know where your data is. I have fond memories of saving documents to a floppy, walking to the library to print only to find an empty floppy disk. Going back home, formatting it, saving again, doublechecking in a friends drive, still there. Going back to library, empty floppy. Going back home, floppy disk still empty. Had this happening several times with different floppies. Friends had the same problem. Write-lock didn't help a thing. It was less than 50% chance it would actually work. But it did work now and then.
- johnklos 3y agoThat sounds like an MS-DOS problem. Some systems didn't properly detect disk changes, so if lots of buffers were configured, the system would just keep reading the same data out of memory. If your system is fine, and your data is on the floppy according to your friend's system, too, then the issue was most likely the library's system. That's not a floppy issue ;)
- Moru 3y agoThe problem was that the floppy was empty after the library computer touched it :-) Oh, and I had enough problems with floppies loosing data too. Especially the newer disks, the older ones were better but the new packages I could throw 10-20% of the floppies.
- jcadam 3y agoOr... when you finally get to the part of the game that requires you to insert disk 7 of 7. And then you discover disk 7 is bad.
- eschneider 3y agoEither your machine or the machine at the library had bad head alignment. :/