No ID address mark

Question

All of a sudden I am getting the following message on my 3 1/2' A: drive ' No ID address mark found on the floppy disk.'  I am using disk that have been used previously and that has data files on them.  Can anyone help solve this problem?   Thanks, Mike

BigBrother · Answer

mikebsr,

Can you read this disk in another computer? If so, then you may have a problem with your floppy drive.

Can you successfully format another floppy disk in the drive? Can you then save data to the freshly formatted floppy disk and read it back? If you can, then there is probably nothing wrong with your floppy drive.

If you can successfully read this disk in any computer, copy the data from the floppy disk and save it to a media which will be more reliable. Burning the info to a CD is a suggestion. Saving it on another computer to act as a backup is also a solution, though not a very good one.

Floppy disks are not really a viable backup media. They do not last forever. Data will eventually fade from them and the magnetic surface on the diskette will eventually wear out. If you determine that the floppy disk cannot be read in your computer or any other, you may need to find a local company to recover the data from the diskette for you.

Steve

cahallmxj · Answer

mikebsr:   Have you installed anything new inside your pc latley?  if you did, did you make sure that all the caples were plugged in securley?  Doing a quick google search it seems that that error can occure if the cable going to the floppy has come lose or has been put in backward. If thats not the case then it would proably be easier to just get a new drive.

mikebsr · Answer

Thanks.  I am not able to access any disk, with or without data so I can not format a new disk.  I will double check, but I am quite certain that these disk can be read by anothe computer.  Unfoitunately , my other desk top does not have a CD burner.  I may try to copy the data from the disk that I need onto my new laptop and burn a CD with it.   Appreciate your comments.   Mike

mikebsr · Answer

I have not installed any new hardware not has the system been moved. However, that doesn't mean that a cable may not have come loose. I'll take the case of and double check. When I run a drive check with my system it tells me that it is working properly???

Thanks, Mike.

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