Trashed floppy drive?

[John Richards]

I copied a file to a previously formated and used floppy in one of my two
PCs and tried to read it on the other PC. When I clicked on the drive in
windows explorer, it said the drive was unformatted. I put the floppy back
into the original PC and it also told me the floppy was unformatted. When I
removed it I noticed that the metal cover on the floppy didn't slide easily
and thought that the disk was bad. I then tried a brand new preformatted
floppy in the original PC and it told me that IT was not formatted and did I
want to format it. I clicked yes but after a short wait, it said it
couldn't format it. I don't remember exactly what the message was but I
think it was unable to read the disk. I tried other new disks on both PCs
with the same results. I suppose ANYTHING is possible but how likely is it
that a bad floppy disk trashed the floppy drives in both PCs, or is there
another possible explanation for what's going on?

Thanks
John

 

[Eric Gisin]

The head need cleaning. Just buy a cleaning kit.