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Often, we find that disks will read on some of our computers but not on =
others.  Since the file system is the same in this case, the read =
problems may be due to differing alignments on the floppy drives.

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From: Mike Specchierla [mailto:mspecchierla@COLUSA.K12.CA.US]
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 10:33 AM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Hit: TECH: Floppy disks


Here is my theory based on similar experiences at our school. Similar
errors with student disks, not recognized - do you want to format etc...
My theory is that the disks were formatted in MS DOS.  Windows 2000 and
XP need FAT 32. Different file systems - Win 2000 and XP do not like the
older format. So make sure all disks are formatted on 2000 or XP
machines so they are backwards compatible to Win 98.

M.F. Specchierla
Library Media Teacher
Colusa High School
Colusa, CA 95932
Phone: 530.458.2156
Fax: 530.458.5783
mspecchierla@colusa.k12.ca.us
visit us online at:
http://www.colusa.k12.ca.us/chs/library/index.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Palmateer Family [mailto:npalmate@TWCNY.RR.COM]=3D20
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 4:28 AM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: TECH: Floppy disks

For the last two months we have had a problem in our computer lab that =
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our instructional technology technicians have been unable to solve.  =
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Frequently, students saving work to 3 =3D3DBD floppy disks receive no =
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error
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message on saving, but are unable to open anything on the disk later.  =
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Even disks that are brought in from home, files opened and then resaved
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disk is no longer recognized on any of our school=3D3D92s computers.

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We are running Windows2000 on IBM machines with Panda antivirus updated
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from our network at each login.  Other antivirus programs have been run
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on a few machines with no viruses detected.  One computer=3D3D92s hard =
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drive
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was reformatted and the floppy a drive replaced.  Yet with all these =
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measures, we still have the problem.  It does not happen every time or =
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on a particular machine.  We can no longer, in conscience, allow =3D3D
students to open their disks on the lab computers because they risk =
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losing all their work.

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Does anyone have any suggestions for something we are overlooking?  The
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tech people are considering that the problem may be environmental.  Any
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Nancy Palmateer, LMS

Canton Central School

npalmeer@cantonbsd.neric.org

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