I would take one last stab at trying to detect a virus on the new hard drive

Hi,

some 3 years ago I had an older 486 Laptop. Atonce the floppy drive couldn't access floppies anymore. I think after using one floppy. Trying to format floppies always resulted in an error massage "Spur 0 damaged" (German something like line 0 ?) On an other PC the floppy could be formatted.

I thought I got rid of all damaged floppies. I even bought a new floppy drive but the same behaviour.

One year ago I bought a new notebook and forgot teh problem. Accidentally I used one of the old floppies and now I have the same problem with the new notebook. Floppy drive doesnt work any more. No files cvan be read from any floppy. I changed the hard disk (oparating system installed before using the bad floppy) still the floppy drive regards all floppies as damaged.

I cant find a virus. Can a virus be stored somewhere else in the system than on the Hard disk?

I don't know what I can do.

Thanks for any help. Sorry if my english is not correct.

Ludwig

This question was answered on November 7, 2002. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.

Hi Ludwig,

My guess would be that the old floppy has a virus on it,which infected your new floppy drive I would try one last time looking for viruses.

I would put in a windows 98 startup disk and download a virus protection software of some sort I would recommend trend micro for the virus protection software.

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Posted by Dan of Mesa Community College on November 7, 2002

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