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From: [e-mail] (Nick FitzGerald, PC Software Consultant, CSC, UoC, NZ)
Subject: Re: 3.5 floppy only reads what IT wrote
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 02:42:59 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Peter
Dressner) writes:

> I have a Gateway with a 3.5 floppy. The drive only reads files it
> wrote to the floppy. Floppies that have been formatted and 
> contain files from other machines are unreadable. Also, 3.5 floppies
> that were written by this defective floppy drive a long time ago are
> also unreadable.
> 
> This sounds like a head alignment problem.

Too right it does!

> ... How does one go about
> fixing it? Are there alignment screws that you can adjust?

The --VERY VERY FIRST-- thing you do is make sure that --ALL-- files on
the floppies that you can currently read in the drive, which aren't
already on your HD or another floppy (if you have -two- floppy drives)
get copied to your HD (and/or to a floppy in your other drive).

If you don't do this before fixing the alignment problem you have kissd
those files goodbye.  (Well, you can -try- to re-misalign the drive back
to read your floppies, but don't count on be able to do so!)

Generally, head alignment is something I'd only trust to a good repair
shop (though there are/have been DIY guides).

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 Nick FitzGerald, PC Applications Consultant, CSC, Uni of Canterbury, N.Z.
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