My floppy disk drive is messed up for some reason..

[Guest]

I had a floppy half way sticking out of my TOWER unit and I accidentally bumped it with my elbow and partially cracked it. Had a little trouble getting it back out but finally managed. Now when I insert this diskor any other non broken floppy disk in, it asks me if I want to format the disk..This is sure not normal...and not sure how to correct it..I can hear and see the disc spinning when I try to open a file off the disk but it responds, not with a list of files, but with that error message to format it...and I don't want to format/erase any disk....could I have damaged the track or something inside when I pried it out with pliers(from the outside, didn't mess with the inside.) Any advice welcome?!?!?

[kmanWX]

I had a floppy half way sticking out of my TOWER unit and I accidentally bumped it with my elbow and partially cracked it. Had a little trouble getting it back out but finally managed. Now when I insert this diskor any other non broken floppy disk in, it asks me if I want to format the disk..This is sure not normal...and not sure how to correct it..I can hear and see the disc spinning when I try to open a file off the disk but it responds, not with a list of files, but with that error message to format it...and I don't want to format/erase any disk....could I have damaged the track or something inside when I pried it out with pliers(from the outside, didn't mess with the inside.) Any advice welcome?!?!?

oh get aanother floppy drive and try it on that...

Or test your currect floppy on someone elses computer....

[mf_dolphin]

It sounds like you've damaged the drive itself. I would say take it to a show except the diagnostic cost would be more than the replacement drive. I would just buy a new floppy drive and replace it. You can probably get one for $15.00 or so.