Floppy discs in Open Access centres
Download a handout for students on organising folders in My Computer. Saves all that stress with failing floppies.
Yup – a student had the ‘Disc in Drive A is not formatted. Format now?’ message on a College computer. The disc had a term’s work on it, and, no there were not backups on the hard drive at home. IT coaches in the Open Access room did their magic with disc recovery software. The handout above is designed to reduce the hassle this kind of thing causes.
Roll on XP and USB drives for everyone.
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bodmas.org, 22 May 2005