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Poole <nospan@ibm.net> wrote:

>Richard RUDEK wrote:
>> 
>> tonyb@removeme.ramhb.co.nz (**Modify to email**) wrote:
>> 
>> >Hi and thanks for reading this
>> >
>> >I wonder if others have noted the seeming higher failure rate for floppy disks these days.
>> >
>> >I, and others that I have spoken to have all noted this.
>> >
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>Here is a snip from a somewhat rambling news group item from MARCH 08:
> >I can't count the number of times I have entered a
> >floppy into OS/2 that had been used on 95 to find that things aren't
>right. 
> >I have to use Norton Diskedit to manually destroy the long names and
>restore
> >the volume label to the right thing.  The long names reside in extra
>file
> >entries that claim to be hidden system read-only volumelabel
>directories
> >consuming up to 45MB on a floppy.  This often causes the volume label
>to
> >appear as "sa" or some two letter combination.  I have to use diskedit
>to
> >make the long-name entries into regular files so I can delete them and
>then
> >everything is fine again.

Hmm? I have encountered this problem and usually correct the problem
by formatting the diskette on my MAC. If the MAC says it's bad then I
pitch the floppy, but 90% of the time it formats the floppy and then,
once it has been blessed by Apple :-), Windoze95 accepts the floppy.

Bob