Floppy Drive Automatically Overwritten

[Mark]

Hello,

I am having a problem with floppy drives. This may not
matter but it is on a peer to peer network. A floopy disk
is inserted and previewed in Explorer. The disk is removed
and another one is put in teh drive. When you try to look
at the new disk, it erases the contents of it and re-
writes the disk with the contents of teh first disk that
was inserted?

Has anyone else had/seen/heard of this error, if so your
help would be much appreciated.

 

[sgopus]

No this is not what's happening, that's impossible!
What is occurring, is that the directory contents seen
with WE is not being refreshed, it's still in a cache
somewhere, I've seen this before and had this same problem
I think it was fixed by doing either and F5 to refresh the
display, or exit WE and reenter it then view the floppy
drive.

 

[Mark]

Thats what I thought too. I havent seen the problem, just
had alot of people saying its happening and I have to
belive them. Having them logging the calls. Its not a
refresh problem. It isnt happening alot, but its happening.

 

[wojo]

This can also be the first signs of a bad floppy drive.
But if it's happening on multiple computers that's not likely.

 

[sgopus]

With it occurring on multiple pc's, I would think it's due
to unknowledgeable users, It's not possible to view a
floppy, and by viewing, copy it's contents to the hd, and
then inserting a different floppy have those same contents
copied to the new floppy, unless you have some kind of
virus, or someone has written some kind of vbasic script
to invoke this action.
viewing alone doesn't copy the contents to any cache, only
the directory structure, I would suggest they take
the new floppy to a different pc and view it again, see if
the contents have really changed, I suspect not!