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Re: [emax] Floppies won't read - "Disk not Formatted!" Error.

2009-04-26 by s*

Take out your floppy drive and clean it with some contact cleaner.  I  
just saved 2 Emax flippy drives that way.



On 25-Apr-09, at 9:20 PM, "George" <trickstar303@...> wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
> A while ago I purchased an Emax II and it came with the original  
> Floppy Library set. Most of them won't read, I always get a blinking  
> "Disk not Formatted!" error. The only set that would load was the  
> "Stereo Grand Piano" 4 Disk set. But as of today even those won't  
> load anymore? Does anyone know why it's doing that? Thanks.
>
> George
> P.S. The original owner was a smoker and the Emax and the disks were  
> kind of crutty. Could it be that the floppy head needs a cleaning or  
> something??!!
>
> 


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