1.2MB floppy disks, white drive

[Yzzerdd]

Well I got a 1.2MB drive working in a 2003 or so Emachine, and I have no 1.2MB disks, with no programs on them. I hear it is not good to use 360K disks in a 1.2MB drive, and 1.2MB drives have thinner tracks, so on and so forth. At any rate, now I need some disks. If anyone has some disks, whether just 10, 50, or even 100, I would be glad to buy some. 100 would be a bit much, but if you will let them go for shipping....

Also, the drive I have has some problems. The spring doesn't eject the disk when I open the drive door via the lever. Furthermore, I was having dificulty getting the head to stay down, as the lever wasn't pushing it right. Anyways, I did manage to rig up a fix, but I wouldn't call it pernament. I primarily store docs on 5.25 disks, so it was neccesary to have the fix. I am looking for a pearl white drive, that works. I would prefer the classic teac design. I could also go for a silver one(if existant) and/or a beige one, to replace the one in my Emachine. Any help would be appreciative.

Well, off to bed!(11:32PM on a school night!)

--Ryan

[Anonymous Freak]

If you only write to the 360 K disks in the same 1.2 MB drive, they'll be fine. And if you only READ the disk on the 1.2 MB drive, it'll be fine.

The big problem is writing to a 360 K disk in a 1.2 MB drive, then trying to read that disk on a 360 K drive. (Or sometimes even on another 1.2 MB drive.)

[Yzzerdd]

I will mostly be using my disks in the same 1.2MB drive, but there may be some switches involved. My AT&T 6300 has an external 3.5" 1.44MB drive, so in that sense I can transfer files through it. Some stuff though I will have to take a 360K disk and put it in my new PC and either copy or transfer to 3.5". I did notice my 1.2MB drive wouldn't read a copy of my 360K flight sim game, but the AT&T read it fine, but that was before my temp. fix on the drive. Lets try again...Nope, just the same noises it made before. It trys to read, but keeps repeating the same sounds(dup,dup..dup,dup, Eep, repeat). It will do that for a few minutes, then stop. Tells me it isn't formatted. Anyways, the reason certain disks would need to be copied on the new PC is so I can get around their clever locking devices keeping me from doing so! Anyone know how they do that and how to get around it in DOS? So far I have been using my drive(with 360K disks) for files. I have a backup of "My Favorites" on there, as well as my text documents, such as cheats and instructions. Still, I would feel safer and have alot more storage space with 1.2MB disks...

--Ryan