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cannot read all floppies that I used in Windows

Asked by ETejeda

I cannot seem to see any files at all in eight 3.5 in. floppy disks that I formatted in Windows.
Trying to open a Word file from one of the floppies in OpenOffice and floppy drive simply displays no files. No error messages.
Same with all other floppies.
I am using Ubuntu 7.10. on a Dell Dimension L1000r.

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douglas_smith (hamsterzombie-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Try this in a terminal and see if it helps:
sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

Also, are you certain the floppy is mounted properly?

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Bryan Donlan (bdonlan) said : 		#2

Floppies are not formatted with ntfs.

Try inserting and accessing a floppy, then with it still in the drive, do the following in a terminal:
dmesg
mount

Paste the output of these commands into this question, and it'll help track down the problem.

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Dr. Arlene A. O'Leary (drolear) said : 		#3

I am unable to format any floppies using the documentation that you provide on the site.
I checked and GFloppy is on the drive. I have mounted the floppy drive several times and it appears on the desktop. I wrote a test file saved it on an old floppy but cannot format. What's wrong?
Only new thing I did was to install the "listed" updates.
Help

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

@ Dr. Arlene A. O'Leary

Please make new question from here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion
you will get better chance to get right answer on a fresh tagged "open" question.
Solved or already answered question are usually not read from answering people.

Thank you

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