Copying from A drive in W2K

[ms]

My floppy drive has never given any problems, fairly new.

This morning I moved files from floppies to my hard drive, no problem with
about 25 floppies in sucession.

Accidently the power was shut off. I booted up, apparently W2K does not do
scandisk, it started normally.

The problem started shortly after that, so maybe it's related.

I would move a file, the A drive would run, keep on running, the file would
not move, finally had to shut down as I could not end task.

I then booted up, cleaned cache, shut down normally, rebooted, and same
problem with floppy. I have 512 MB RAM, 380 MB free. It's hard to believe
I'm loading the processor with the floppy operation.

Advice?

ms

 

[John]

Can you read from the floppy drive? Try formatting a floppy. Check device
manager for any issues. Check Event Viewer too.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

My floppy drive has never given any problems, fairly new.

This morning I moved files from floppies to my hard drive, no problem with
about 25 floppies in sucession.

Accidently the power was shut off. I booted up, apparently W2K does not do
scandisk, it started normally.

The problem started shortly after that, so maybe it's related.

I would move a file, the A drive would run, keep on running, the file would
not move, finally had to shut down as I could not end task.

I then booted up, cleaned cache, shut down normally, rebooted, and same
problem with floppy. I have 512 MB RAM, 380 MB free. It's hard to believe
I'm loading the processor with the floppy operation.

Advice?

ms

As an alternative to John's suggestion: Stop using floppy disks.
They are slow, unreliable and they have very limited capacity.
Buy some flash disks (memory sticks) - they are far superior
to floppy disks in every regard.

 

[Ghostrider]

My floppy drive has never given any problems, fairly new.

This morning I moved files from floppies to my hard drive, no problem with
about 25 floppies in sucession.

Accidently the power was shut off. I booted up, apparently W2K does not do
scandisk, it started normally.

The problem started shortly after that, so maybe it's related.

I would move a file, the A drive would run, keep on running, the file would
not move, finally had to shut down as I could not end task.

I then booted up, cleaned cache, shut down normally, rebooted, and same
problem with floppy. I have 512 MB RAM, 380 MB free. It's hard to believe
I'm loading the processor with the floppy operation.

Advice?

ms

Floppy diskettes are fragile. The sudden loss of power is probably
sufficient to corrupt the boot track and/or the file whilst it was
being read and copied to the hard drive. One last resort would be
to do a fdisk /mbr on this particular floppy diskette.

 

[ms]

Floppy diskettes are fragile. The sudden loss of power is probably
sufficient to corrupt the boot track and/or the file whilst it was
being read and copied to the hard drive. One last resort would be
to do a fdisk /mbr on this particular floppy diskette.

The copy *function* seems to be not working right anymore. I have the
problem with different floppies, no problem before.

ms

 

[ms]

Can you read from the floppy drive? Try formatting a floppy. Check
device manager for any issues. Check Event Viewer too.

It happens with various floppies. I can still format floppies normally.
I looked in DM, everything looks very normal. Where do I find Event
Viewer?

ms

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Floppy diskettes are fragile. The sudden loss of power is probably
sufficient to corrupt the boot track and/or the file whilst it was
being read and copied to the hard drive. One last resort would be
to do a fdisk /mbr on this particular floppy diskette.

This is a Windows 2000 newsgroup. fdisk.exe is a Windows 98
command - it does not exist in Windows 2000 and it won't work
even if you copy it across. Furthermore, using the /mbr switch is bad
advice: It will do things to the ***hard disk*** Master Boot Record,
not the floppy disk. Depending on what the OP has, it might wreck
his boot environment.

Use format.exe to format a floppy disk.

 

[ms]

My floppy drive has never given any problems, fairly new.

This morning I moved files from floppies to my hard drive, no problem
with about 25 floppies in sucession.

Accidently the power was shut off. I booted up, apparently W2K does
not do scandisk, it started normally.

The problem started shortly after that, so maybe it's related.

I would move a file, the A drive would run, keep on running, the file
would not move, finally had to shut down as I could not end task.

I then booted up, cleaned cache, shut down normally, rebooted, and
same problem with floppy. I have 512 MB RAM, 380 MB free. It's hard to
believe I'm loading the processor with the floppy operation.

Advice?

ms

Thanks for the replies, but still no explanation why the copy function
now seems to freeze W2K. This is, after all, just some small files from a
floppy, not big files from a CD.

And where is Event Viewer located?

BTW, I am stopping use of floppies to store data, this operation was to
actually get the data off floppies and on my hard drive.

ms

ms

 

[Steve Parry]

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Thanks for the replies, but still no explanation why the copy function
now seems to freeze W2K. This is, after all, just some small files
from a floppy, not big files from a CD.

And where is Event Viewer located?

start
run
type
eventvwr.msc
click ok

<snip>

 

[ms]

#[email protected]:

snip>>

start
run
type
eventvwr.msc
click ok

<snip>

Thanks, Steve. Found it.

In the System Log screen, I see Service Control Manager listed as Error
in every entry, even a few days ago when I was not copying from the
floppies, and my W2K usually runs with no issues.

In the Application Log screen, every entry for PerfNet is Error each day.

Any ideas on the above? I didn't recognize anything relative to the
floppy drive.

Maybe too a general question, is there a link to a page that describes
W2K services typically listed in System Log?

TIA

ms

 

[Steve Parry]

In

#[email protected]:

snip>>
Thanks, Steve. Found it.

In the System Log screen, I see Service Control Manager listed as
Error in every entry, even a few days ago when I was not copying from
the floppies, and my W2K usually runs with no issues.

In the Application Log screen, every entry for PerfNet is Error each
day.

Any ideas on the above? I didn't recognize anything relative to the
floppy drive.

Maybe too a general question, is there a link to a page that describes
W2K services typically listed in System Log?

TIA

ms

try searching http://www.eventid.net/ and putting in the event id numbers
from the errors you have.

 

[ms]

In


try searching http://www.eventid.net/ and putting in the event id
numbers from the errors you have.

Thanks.

ms

 

[Steve Parry]

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Thanks.

ms

You're welcome, hope it helps