I'm having problems with doing a full format on 3 1/2 floppys with Windows ME. Here's a symptom. The disk was not removed from the drive during these tests which were done in succession. DOS format No bytes in bad sectors Thorough scandisk No bytes in bad sectors Full format (ME) Bytes in bad sectors Thorough scandisk Same number of bytes in bad sectors DOS format Different number of bytes in bad sectors Talks with manufacturer's tech support indicate that there is an "issue" with trying to do full formats on 3 1/2 floppys with Windows ME that have been previously formatted with Windows 98. He was unable to predict what would happen if you tried to do a full format on new disks with the manufacturer's formatting. Does anyone have any authoritative details about this and what, if anything, is being done to correct it?

i did try now full format and thorough scan disc on two floppies, one originally used in windows 98 for couple years (it probably came prefformated so dont know what computer it was formated, but definitelly not on ME...hehe) and other brand new that was factory formated. I did not find any bad sectors in neither of them. I will try to format later today in my windows 98 computer and reformat it in windows ME. I would suspect more the disc drive or the floppy disc itself. Try more floppies... their quality is not very good. Regards Miro

i've never had any trouble like that. try another floppy drive.

I'm having the same problem with an LS-120 Drive. The 120s format ok, but not the 1.44MB. They eventually finish, but start to show problems (apparently retrys) when it gets past 85% comlete. I also can't diskcopy a FULL disk to another disk. I ran a Dell diagnostics test, and it indicated a drive error. I still have to call Dell about a replacement.

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