Floppy Disk Wait Before Removing That Floppy SUMMARY: Why you should always wait for your floppy disk drive light to turn off.   Never, never, never remove a floppy disk before the light on your floppy disk drive turns off! If you are writing data to a floppy disk and you eject the disk, you will most likely damage the file, and you may have to even reformat the floppy! Even ejecting a disk when you are just reading information could cause problems; the read/write head is still moving, so forcefully ejecting a disk could in some very rare instances damage the floppy drive itself.   Add: Del.icio.us | Digg | Furl | My Yahoo!   Discuss This Tip Print This Tip Get E-Mail When New Tips are Online Return to the Floppy Disk page.