-tictech message:
Hello ALL,
It's humorous to hear about others going through all the same machinations
in dealing with floppy disks.
One bit of experience on those little metal guards or shuttles on the
floppies. If they are damaged when you put them into the drive, the guards
may stay in there when you take the disks out. This results in the
situation that Fred refers to below. So, you may want to have a discussion
with the owner of the disk and decide to break the metal guard piece off.
Then you can put the disk in the drive and copy the data one last time
before tossing the it. Not to be overlooked: the itsy bitsy spring which
usually remains in the disk after the metal guard has been removed. Finding
and disgarding this little spring thing could keep it from migrating to the
inside of the drive where it could cause problems.
BTW, we have not had the problems with our Dell CDs and Floppies that Wes
refers to. Perhaps these disk difficulties were distributed in discreet
deliveries to the unwitting and unfortunate.
*** tony
Tony Hand
Technology Coordinator
Nathan Hale High School
Seattle Schools
tghand@seattleschools.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aasheim, Fred
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 8:57 AM
> To: tic-tech
> Subject: tictech: Floppy drives with stuck disk shuttles
>
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> -tictech message:
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> While we're on the subject of floppy drives...
>
> I know most of us have fished for the little metal floppy
> spring loaded
> shuttles in floppy disk drives a time of two...
> I usually use a straightened paper clip with a little hook on
> the end to get
> them out but in some cases it's still difficult
> (Particularly when theres more than two or some one maliciously put
> something into the drive itself ! )
>
> Did you know that on the Dell floppys it's really easy to pop
> the top of the
> drive off !
> Simply remove the drive from the computer and
> use a small screwdriver and pop the floppy drive top off.
> Then its an easy
> matter to access the inards !
>
> Fred Aasheim
> Tech Specialist
> Garfield High School
> flaasheim@seattleschools.org
>
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