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Media descriptor byte error

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From: harry ide
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:17
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Two people in my department have had problems with floppy disks 
intermittently for the last year or two. When I run Norton Disk Doctor
on them, it says the media descriptor byte is invalid, and the FATs 
are messed up (cross-linked, etc.). It's not (as far as I can tell) a 
formatting problem; these disks were formatted in the same way as many
others. (One good result: I think this has finally convinced them to 
keep backups!) The two people this happens to are also the only two 
people who regularly use both home computers and work computers. They 
primarily use word processors; one uses WordPerfect and the other used
to use wordcraft and now uses wp and has had problems with files in 
both. Any ideas on what's going wrong?

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Harry A. Ide                      |  `It's better to play dice with  
(Dad to Andrew, born 4.iv.1991)   |  children than to play politics 
                                  |  with you.' (Heraclitus)
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