mThe disk drive may be damaged. To see if this is the problem, click No to eject the disk; then insert the disk into another drive, if you have one. If you still see the message, the floppy disk may be damaged. If the disk icon appears on the desktop, one of the drives may be damaged. (When a disk that was written on by one drive cannot be read by another, the heads on one of the drives are out of alignment. The drive that is misaligned or broken may not be the drive that cannot read the disk; try the disk in three or four drives to identify the drive with the problem.)
mIf none of these suggestions works, the floppy disk is probably damaged. First use a disk recovery program to copy the data from your damaged disk onto a good disk. For instructions, see the documentation that came with the disk recovery program. Then, use Disk First Aid (located on the system software
The computer keeps asking you to reinsert a floppy disk after you’ve ejected it.
mAn application program or document from the floppy disk is still open and is “looking for” the disk. Reinsert the disk and close the documents or quit the application programs that are open on the disk. (Go to the Application menu in the
the floppy disk by selecting its icon and choosing Put Away from the File menu.
mYou may not have properly ejected the floppy disk. To eject the disk properly, reinsert it, select the floppy disk icon, and choose Put Away from the File menu. If you eject a floppy disk by choosing Eject Disk from the Special menu, the computer remembers the floppy disk in its memory and keeps asking you to reinsert it.
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