HI: I am now trying to use a Floppy disk but everytime I put one in, it does not seem to want to copy! I was told that you have to format it FIRST What is Formating and How do I do it? Any help would be appreciated and Thank You ALL in advance. PS: How much is it suppose to hold?

Hello Tom,
You can format your floppy by going to "My conputer" then right clicking on the floppydrive icon and selecting "format".

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To Bassman: I tried your advise But this is what came up on my screen! (it froze) At Top of screen it said ( Norton Anti Virus Auto Protect) then Under that it said THE APPLICATION C:\Windows\Explorer.exe is attempting Write to Boot Record of Drive A:. This action will not be allowed OK Could this somehow be a used disk or something? I got it brand New out of the Box! Please let me know what you think? Thanks Tom

Your problem right now seems to be that Norton Anti-Virus is preventingfrom wirting to the disk. The warning you received should give you an option to allow the procedure... writing to the boot record is what you want to do. That is what formatting a disk does, erases the current data and constructs a master boot record. Then the disk is ready to receive data. Your blank disks are probably ok, even pre-formatted, NAV just won't let you write to them...try turning off NAV until you are finished with copying your data to the disk.

A standard floppy is 1.44MB.

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Originally posted by bassman:
Hello Tom,
You can format your floppy by going to "My conputer" then right clicking on the floppydrive icon and selecting "format".

Thank You bassman it worked very well. Also I thank TJMadison for the location of the Total story on Floppy Disks I can print and save both rsolutions. TOM

Thank You too mjc: You were right I had to diable norton anti virus first! Originally posted by mjc:
Your problem right now seems to be that Norton Anti-Virus is preventingfrom wirting to the disk. The warning you received should give you an option to allow the procedure... writing to the boot record is what you want to do. That is what formatting a disk does, erases the current data and constructs a master boot record. Then the disk is ready to receive data. Your blank disks are probably ok, even pre-formatted, NAV just won't let you write to them...try turning off NAV until you are finished with copying your data to the disk.

A standard floppy is 1.44MB.