I built a system for a friend in Germany. She reports that none of her floppy disks are readable. The disks were made under German version of Win98. Does this make a difference? She tried 10 different disks. She just gets prompt indicating that they are not formatted and need formatting. Before I shipped system, floppy worked great. The disks are unreadable under both the Win98 SE and Win2K Pro partition. Can anything help?

The difference in langauge should not make one bit of difference. The problem lies elswhere. It is probable that the heads of the drive the disks where formatted on is slightly out of alignment compared to the new floppy drive. This was always a problem with floppy disks that disks formatted on one drive, could not be read on another. All I can suggest is that your friend tries reading them on another computer. If succseful, copy them to a floppy formatted on the new computer. Stuart

whoomjah, "IF" the disks are good have her get all of her disks copied to CD on someone else's computer that has a writer and then if she needs any bootable system disks get her to go to "www.bootdisk.com" and make one of her own from there. ciao, wired