format a floppy disc

[vodkaphix]

i want to be able to clean a 3.5 floppy disc - delete what is already on
there - how do i do this please?

 

[Graham Mayor]

What has this to do with Microsoft Word? Floppy discs have no place near
Word!

However to answer your question, from Windows Explorer select the A drive in
the left window, right click and select format. Choose Quick Format.

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[Steve Hayes]

What has this to do with Microsoft Word? Floppy discs have no place near
Word!

However to answer your question, from Windows Explorer select the A drive in
the left window, right click and select format. Choose Quick Format.

Choose quickformat only if it is agenuine floppy dfisk. Stiffy disks are too
unreliable, and should have a full format, otherwise you might take a document
from work to home or vice versa and get bad sector errors, which can be very
frustrating if you promised the boss you'd have it ready in the morning.

 

[Graham Mayor]

3.5" discs are no less reliable than any other - what is unreliable is
saving or opening Word documents to/from them. It is the major cause of
document corruption. It is not the disc that's the problem but the way Word
uses temporary files in the working folder.

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