>    I have suffered from this problem for ages(since 1995) with my good old
 >MS-DOS.
 >Well, I discovered way back then that it was my floppy drive's fault. The
 >head was whack...
 >The test was. The disk was formatted and written using the faulty drive.
 >Other drives cannot
 >read the disk but only the faulty drive is able to.....
 >
 >   Unfortunately as time passed by, the quality of diskettes has suffered.
 >Nowadays, I honestly
 >can't tell that my data would survive a year in a diskette.

Floppy drives are used so little these days, and as the fan in the power
supply sucks instead of blows (thanks to IBM) the floppy drive spends day
after day collecting dust. When you finally come to use it, it is filthy.
In days of yore, regular usage helped keep the heads relatively dust free.

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