Yzzerdd
Veteran Member
Auto degauss, as you should know, is a process of applying electricity through coils to undo the effects of magnetism on monitors, which is dischaged from it. (or something like that, right?)
So, a month ago I had typed up an extensive report on my companies inventory. I didn't bother putting it on the hard drive, as I decided to trust the floppy. Mistake. I left the floppy in the B: drive, and it was there for about 2 weeks. Then I aquired a new PC and had sold a few. So, naturally, I wanted to update the disk. During the 2 weeks, I had redone my hard drive, ran tests on my monitor(which can auto-degauss) and had move my computer about 1 foot across the desk. My computer is an AT&T 6300, which as mentioned earlier, has potential to auto-degauss the monitor, and that function WAS TESTED with diagnostics. So anyways, I went to update the disk, and no info was found on it. As a matter of fact, the computer told me to reformat the disk. So now I have to totally redo my inventory. This time I will save to hard disk as well(which, BTW, is external). As a matter of fact, I am even gonna save to external 1.44MB disk, and transfer it to my new PC hard drive.
I guess I discovered a flaw in auto degauss, which was marketed as a positive feature back in the day.
Anyone else have this problem?
--Ryan
So, a month ago I had typed up an extensive report on my companies inventory. I didn't bother putting it on the hard drive, as I decided to trust the floppy. Mistake. I left the floppy in the B: drive, and it was there for about 2 weeks. Then I aquired a new PC and had sold a few. So, naturally, I wanted to update the disk. During the 2 weeks, I had redone my hard drive, ran tests on my monitor(which can auto-degauss) and had move my computer about 1 foot across the desk. My computer is an AT&T 6300, which as mentioned earlier, has potential to auto-degauss the monitor, and that function WAS TESTED with diagnostics. So anyways, I went to update the disk, and no info was found on it. As a matter of fact, the computer told me to reformat the disk. So now I have to totally redo my inventory. This time I will save to hard disk as well(which, BTW, is external). As a matter of fact, I am even gonna save to external 1.44MB disk, and transfer it to my new PC hard drive.
I guess I discovered a flaw in auto degauss, which was marketed as a positive feature back in the day.
Anyone else have this problem?
--Ryan