Floppy Drive

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I have a problem with a friends laptop, when I try to save a document to the floppy drive I get a mesage saying location is write protected, there is probably a simple answer to this but I don't know it,
I know it is not the disk as I have tried two and the tab is not on lock,

 

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just means that the previous user has blocked write access to protect whatever they had on it, try alt click,- general- and look at the bottom for two tick options, one should say read only. hth!

 

Thanks moominboy, where do I right click, sorry for being dumb

 

I think he means:

Double-click My Computer
Right-click 3 1/2 Floppy: (A)
Click Properties
Click General tab

Make sure a floppy diskette is already inserted. I assume that's the reason I can't find those options on the drives of the two computers I tried. I don't have a diskette handy.

 

I have done that but there are no options at the bottom.

 

Pete,

Have you taken a look in device manager to make sure the floppy has no errors reported?

 

I have tried the same stuff on a file and the tick boxes are there, the problem I am having is there is nothing on the disks that I am trying to save to. and it still says location is write protected,

 

Hy Boyce,

That was the first thing I checked, this one has got me beat

 

Can you format the disk ?

 

my fault mate, i have the floppy shortcut on my desktop so i just said what i would do!

 

No probs M8, I will just have to get roud it another way.

Thanks guys