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Floppy problems
Name: Donald Lamaack Date: July 26, 2003 at 16:28:30 Pacific OS: XP 1A CPU/Ram: 1.67 GHZ 768 MB DDR
Comment:
ok i have windows xp installed on 2 comuters and on both when i insert a floppy it says "disk in drive is not formatted" so i say ok format it like 2 seconds later it says format could not be completed....now ive tried numurous floppies and different drives and ive also tried switching the cable around both on motherboard and floppy drive and i get the same thing.
Name: Symbios Date: July 26, 2003 at 18:22:02 Pacific
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This happens to me all the time I threw away about 20 disks!
But one day I tried formatting them in dos (pure dos, not does prompt) success! It also works in 95/98 too.
I'm glad to here this is happening to someone else and not just me! :) I thought maybe my house had strange magnetic fields or something!
I'm not too sure why windows XP/2000 have problems with floppies, maybe someone here can answer that.
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Response Number 2
Name: TopFarmer Date: July 26, 2003 at 19:05:55 Pacific
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Hi more floppy format problems my os win98se. if I format floppy i can just toss the floppy in the trash, it is no longer any good, i can format useing win95 just fine. i will no longer format useing win98se.
Name: Birdman Date: July 27, 2003 at 05:54:37 Pacific
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Here is something that I have found to work sometimes. I had a similar problem in win98, so I would format the disk as a 720k disk, then reformat as a 1.44M. After that I could keep reformating as 1.44M without any trouble.
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Response Number 5
Name: Doug Date: July 28, 2003 at 10:39:05 Pacific
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same problem here but still don't know why it happens. NT 4.0 on a Pentium III in FAT32. Drive works fine (several in fact) have switched ribbon cables numerous times; checked all BIOS settings etc. Still won't see the data on the disk. And I'm still looking for solutions. Maybe a new motherboard?
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