Floppys Don't Work

I have a box of floppys sitting on my computer
desk between a 17" monitor and an old IBM PS/1
386 computer which I use to run just one program
I cannot run in XP. The box of floppys is about
4 inches away and next to the computer and on the
other side is a 17" monitor 6 inches away. I just discovered
7 of the floppys do not work and cannot even be
formatted. 4 have data on them and 3 are blank.
I go to the DOS prompt and get a warning message
incorrect peramitor, or file system not recognized
Then when I try tom format I get an message
windows cannot format this disk. Another 10 disks
in the box were OK.

I suspect where the box of floppys is stored is
the problem. Can anyone tell me why 7 floppys
went bad and 10 are OK?

Thanks, Jerry

 

Just to make it a true test..... take the same floppies to another computer and try them out.

 

Ok?

Does ok mean that you formatted them now, or were they already formatted? Unless you recently subjected them to format and checked the available size by looking at properties for each one, you haven't shown they're ok.

Might be their position on your desk, but time alone is deleterious to magnetic media, hence the popularity of CDs.

 

Any updates jerryhillman ?