My floppy drive can't write to the disk using win xp. It reads fine. If I boot using a win 98 startup disk, I can write to the floppy with no problems. But if I use the cmd line to try writing to the drive in xp, or copy and paste using MyComputer or Windows Explorer, or by using the send to menu, it appears to do so and then if I remove the floppy from the drive and re-insert it the floppy is blank. Device manager tells me the drive is working properly. The disk is not write protected and has been formatted. The drive works properly under all conditions EXCEPT in Win XP. I have contacted Microsoft to ask about it but they want me to call their tech support and PAY for the call. I already paid for the software, why should I have to pay for the tech support?? Hopefully someone knows how to fix this problem. Thanks in advance for any help!

Hi, there have been lots of problems raised in the past with floppies under XP. Why don't search this forum archives with keyword "floppy". Some item could lead you on the right track. Good luck !

Just curious... I know that you said that the diskette itself is physically NOT write-protected...but did you check your bios settings and make sure that the write-protection is disabled... For whatever reason...mine was set to 'enabled' by default when the software was first installed...