Why General Failure Reading Drive A: occurs?

When someone access his floppy disk, he is getting a general failure error. Maybe that the light is coming or not,when you try the command.
                  “ A drive working in windows,but when it come to DOS it is giving a error that General Failure reading drive A:
General failure reading Drive AAbort:: retry:: fail:: ”
Explanation: This happens just with some particular diskette, then it would be the diskette has some non standard format. It can have more then 80 tracks or more then 18 sectors per track. Generally Windows can read such diskette without a problem, but to read it in DOS you need special driver.

But if you can't read any diskette at all, check out CMOS settings for the floppy drive.It might be that the type of the diskette was set incorrect.
Cause:
  • Mainly it cause because of accessing the unformatted disk.
  • If the light is not coming then it might be a problem with your drive/controller.
  • If the Disk is not Formatted or the Diskette is damaged (Problem of Bad Sector) then the error occurs.
  • If the disk is totally damaged then it could occur.
 General Failure in Reading Drive A
Solution:
  • If it is a unformatted disk then u know what u have to do.Yes Format It.
“ I have just format my disk and I am still getting the error. What to do?” – Yes This Can Also Happen.
  1. In this case try running a drive cleaner through the floppy drive.
  2. It is a bad floppy. It might have a bad sector in it and the drive can't read it.
  3. The disk might be damaged.
Why General Failure in Reading drive A
  • If there is any problem of Bad Sector in the diskette then you should transfer the data from the Bad Sector to a Good Sector by using  the NDD(Norton Disk Doctor) Command of the Norton Utility. You can also point out the Bad Sector as bad and make the diskette usable.
  • If the Diskette is not readable then it could be turned into readable by formatting (Formatting will erase its memory) it. 
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I’m getting Error message: Track O Bad.

It doesn’t happened with me but yes this can occur in any PC.The necessary reasons behind this and how To solve this problem(I’m getting Error message: Invalid media/Track O Bad.) is Listed Below:

why I am getting Error message Invalid media/Track O Bad

Cause:

  • If the diskette is damaged then the error comes.
  • If there is any problem in the Head of the Disk Drive then it occurs.

Getting a Error Track 0 bad

Solution:

  • If the problem is of the damaged track of the diskette then you should check it by giving the Format Command  on a Blank Diskette Drive. If the Diskette is then readable or Formatable then the Diskette is damaged. For that you should replace it with a working one.
  • If you want to try to save the diskettes (verify that they are really bad):
    - Cleaning the heads on the drive.
    - Formatting in another drive (with clean heads of course).
    - Bulk-erasing the diskette.
  • You can Try formatting that disk.
  • If the Diskette is not readable or Formatable after doing the test written above then the Diskette is right and the problem is of the Drive. For this you should clean the Head by using the HEAD CLEANER. If it not work then you should service the Drive. If it also not work then the Drive is totally damaged and then you should replace it.
  • Now U can Try this out AS your last weapon:                          Flobo Hard Disk Repair Portable:

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Track 0 Bad

Flobo Hard disk  Repair  is basically bad sector removal and repair software that removes the logical bad sectors and repairs Track 0 Bad Disks. Bad sectors are a major problem in hard disks, which are found to be mainly logical in nature. Disk Repair is a utility to remove/repairs logically formed bad sectors from Hard Disks and Floppy Disks with FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 File system and all versions of MS Windows support.

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