non working floppy drive

davey

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Jan 12, 2003, 1:24:09 AM1/12/03

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I was wondering if anyone else has had the problem of
floppy drives that don't work with windows xp. I have
two computers with windows xp, one home and one pro, but
neither one has a working floppy drive. I always get an
error that says the floppy is not formatted. The drives
work fine in non xp systems.

jack

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Jan 12, 2003, 3:19:20 AM1/12/03

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Yes, many others are having problems with floppies, myself included. The
only viable explaination I have seen yet is, XP has a serious problem with
FAT 12. It seems that MS does not want to admit, or address the problem.

I have created floppies on this very machine, used them a few times, only to
insert them again and see the same thing you mentioned, "this floppy is not
formatted". The floppy is then rendered ureadable on any other machine.

If you have valauble information on floppies, I would urge you to flip the
"write protect" tab before even inserting them into an XP machine. Copy the
contents to file and then work on it from there. After that, attempt to copy
the new file to another floppy, write protect it and re-insert it to varify
copy.

HTH. Jack
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davey

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Jan 12, 2003, 4:05:43 AM1/12/03

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Thanks for the info Jack, but the problem I am having is
every disk, even brand new ones come up with that. Is
there any way to fix it?

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jack

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Jan 12, 2003, 4:49:38 AM1/12/03

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You could install another floppy drive, other than that, I have no other
suggestions.
LOL. Jack

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O. Lenassi

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Jan 12, 2003, 6:36:21 PM1/12/03

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>.
>I have a Gateway and talked with their techs about the
same problem. They say that if the floppy was formatted
with another version of Windows such as 2000, then XP
will not recognize the format. It wants to format it by
using its own files. They say that I must transfer my
data from my old floppies on another system with 98,
format a new floppy with XP and then transfer that data
on the newly formatted disk. They also said that I should
have no problems going from 98 to XP, just avoid 2000.

Pres Bushy

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Jan 13, 2003, 1:46:16 AM1/13/03

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go to the command prompt

Do a DIR from their...
Now go back to windows and it will read it

bbunny

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Jan 13, 2003, 1:08:38 PM1/13/03

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I had this problem once. It was the release button sticking.
A replacement Floppy drive at $12 fixed the problem.

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Andrew

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Jan 22, 2003, 1:08:34 PM1/22/03

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I have seen this many times its a bug with Windows XP
(Micrsoft has not fessed up to it yet), many disks
formatted under Windows 95/98/NT will not read in Windows
XP. Sometimes if you try the disk like 20 times you might
get it to read once or twice if you are lucky, I have
found this problem to be the worst when using disks
formatted from a Windows 95 system. Unfourtuantly up to
now the only solution I have found is to transfer the
floppy data onto a non Windows XP or 2000 system (use
Windows 95 or 98) and then format the disks with Windows
XP, then add the data back. If you only have a few disks
its no big deal, but some of the Professors I look after
upgraded their systems and found this problem occurring
and they had 50 plus floppy disks!!! If you have heard of
a better solution then this (transfering data and
formatting with XP) please let me know, come on Microsoft
get with it already!

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