Most floppy ?? disks I put in my camera say Disk Error ..... normally when I buy new ons theyare ok .... but after a while ... they will show disk error too ... why s this ??? I have a Mavica, and a while back, the exact same symptoms, but not quite so bad as you describe. There are 2 possibilities, dirt on the heads or misalignment of the heads from jarring the camera. Try cleaning the heads first since this is by far and above the more likely cause. There are disk drive cleaning kits available, which consist of a floppy housing with a liquid cleaner you put onto an absorbant disk which cleans the heads when it spins after loading. Next, you may have jarred the camera and knocked the h4eads out of alignment. If this is the case, a disk formatted in the camera will not enounter errors as the news ones did after a while. If it is the head alignment which is the cause, then you will end up sending in for realignment or formatting the disks you use in the camera only, but then, since the track will be slightly misaligned on the disk, it may encounter errors in your desktop floppy drive, so the format in the camera is a possible solution, but it may also work exactly the same as the problem you are having, so, clean the heads, and if that does nothing, get the alignment of the heads looked into. In my case, is was simply dirty heads. After using the head cleaner, it worked for a whole year without an error and then it was time to clean the heads again, and it is working well at present. the camera might be getting a little old maybe because all of the floppy's are damaged or you're camare is broke |
