When Did One Continuity 'Drop The Ball' While Another One 'Caught' It?

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I personally retconed it in this way in an attempt to bring reason to the whole event:

Since the Spark is basically mostly energy encased in a kind of physical transluscent but volitile bubble, Ethan Zachary was able to store the 'energy' in a Double Density 5.25" 360kb () Floppy disc. The capacity of the Floppy disc became irrelevant as the magnetic disc was enough to sustain the Energies of Prime's spark in the same way that the transluscent bubble is able to do.

Note: Please keep in mind that:

a) I am taking Scientific Liberties like all good Sci-Fi universes do.
b) There is a lot about what constitutes a spark and Transformers data storage capabilities that we don't know. They could have perfected some super advanced way to compress data in order to store huge amounts of it in as little 'space' as possible. Kinda like a super advanced pkzip (winzip now).