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Need a bigger hammer ⚒️

Unfortunately this is not always true. Floppy drives use mechanical alignment to both format, write and read data. Over time, especially in laptops where there is a lot of bumping and jarring, the zero point can be slightly moved, preventing the read write heads to be over the starting point. This makes the drive unable to properly index the sectors containing the directory structure, which will bring up the "this disk is not formatted" message as the OS now believes the disk is not. It was not uncommon for someone to replace the drive upon failure and finding the new one unable to read the disks. Older utilities included alignment software which was to be run periodically to alleviate this issue. Definitely use the floppy drive (if working) to move files to hard drive, remove drive, plug in to device I listed and you are good to go. Every tech has one. They do 3.5/2.5" IDE, and SATA.

Simplest solution is to simply remove the old laptop hard drive (will probably be ide, with pins) and connect it to an adapter that allows it to plug into new device via USB. It will show up as a drive similar to a flash drive. Navigate in file explorer and copy required files. As far as floppy disk drives, as mentioned above they quite often don't work as the heads are not aligned with the disks. https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/usb3ssataide

I am just a simple hobbyist with a couple of old waves plugins purchased from them years ago. The email I received from them indicated that if I purchased any plugins from a third party that I had to register that with them to ensure they are perpetual, and if purchased directly through them, that no action was necessary. No mention of a subscription. Think mine are v9 and v10. Grant

Omg. That explains in a nutshell why I use this software! Over 35? Check. Yard full of 60/70s Mopars? Check. Older is better? Not always, but for the most part? Check. Quirky? Yeah, I suppose haha

Sorry bout the arpeggio, my index finger was getting sore

Funny how I always that Acme supplied everything needed.

Nice. 2018 for me. Feels good with one year to retirement. Like I'm going back to my younger days. Hey, wait ?

Can't believe five pages were wasted discussing the periodic connection to the internet as being dangerous , when simply posting his position probably satisfied a refresh of his software activation. Maybe will be back online in six months.

PC shop owner for 25 years. Used to do at least two virus/malware removals a day up to and including Win 7, regardless of the 3rd party anti-virus being used. With Win 10, using built-in along with Malware bytes, the only ones we see are customers responding to stupid emails that didn't get blocked. Bad for us, good for us lol.

Cursive died here officially - 7 May 2021

Apologies. Was responding to post prior to the one it seems I replied to. Still have my copy of Fahrenheit 451.

Triggered much?

I Am a MS fanboy lol. And an unabashed one at that ?.

You will be happy to know that the new ui overhaul in progress for Win10 will be reintroducing this philosophy. Me too