Floppy Disk Failure | Stephen Grider Lawsuit

When Stephen Grider tried to save information to the floppy disk on the then-new Compaq Presario laptop he bought in September 2000, it often came back garbled and unreadable -- lost in a digital netherland.

It wasn't user error, however. Turns out the $1,700 computer had a faulty floppy disk controller. Grider had paid an extra $219 for an extended warranty, but when Compaq refused to replace the faulty part, he eventually filed a lawsuit against the company.

The lawsuit filed by Grider and his wife, Beverly, in June 2003 has been certified as a nationwide class-action lawsuit by Oklahoma District Judge Tom Lucas, with a whopping 1.7 million potential plaintiffs.

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