neeeeeed heeeeelp!!!!! can not formate floppys

[inspactor]

hi! i have the problem that my eII wont format floppydisks! so everytime i start the process with klicking the button "disk that number 8 for format disk," than it ask me" insert libery disk press enter" i do but nothing happens and allways gomes this message!??? both of the floppy drives are ok and the jumper settings are also ok. need help! thx

[minphase]

The format process will default to formatting drive B.  It will look to drive A to get the OS from your boot disc, and copy that onto the blank disc in drive B.

Leave your boot disk in drive A, put blank into B, press the Disk button, then '8' for format.  Don't worry, it won't format drive A ! 

It will load some info from the boot disc in drive A, and will then say 'insert disk to be formatted into drive B'.  Put the blank disc into B if you haven't done so already, and hit enter.  If things are OK, it will format the blank disc in B.   

Hope this works for you, best, minphase.

[minphase]

If that's what you've been doing already, sorry!   You could swap the drives -- perhaps your drive B has a misaligned head and can't write, as JMP mentioned the other day.  If you swap drive B for A, and swap jumpers, you might be able to use drive A to format the floppy.     Good luck!  minphase

[inspactor]

the second answer should be the best! because the first one was without a result. i will try it later! thx buddy