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Floppy formatting
Name: Luciano Date: February 21, 2002 at 10:47:36 Pacific
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HI! When I try to open a floppy I get "Floppy not formatted". After I formatted it I can't open it on a W98 PC. Help me please Luciano
Name: chad Date: February 21, 2002 at 12:52:43 Pacific
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I guess u are formating it on windows XP?? If so try formating it from the w98 machine u r trying to run it on...
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Response Number 2
Name: Joe Date: February 21, 2002 at 16:25:29 Pacific
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I agree with Chad... Formatting a floppy in XP is like a one-way ticket to a rubber room.
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Response Number 3
Name: EarlyBird Date: February 22, 2002 at 01:07:03 Pacific
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Where do you people get the rubbish you advise here? The format on XP is exactly the same as any other version of Windows. more than likely the write heads on his XP floppy drive are out of alignment and the 98 floppy is not reading the information. The reverse situation could be true ie the 98 heads could be out of alignment. For goodness sake put a bit of thought into your replies!
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Response Number 4
Name: Country Goat Date: February 22, 2002 at 01:15:55 Pacific
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I will say that as far as I know in Windows XP you can only do a "quick format" on a floppy, not a full format. If a full format can be done on a floppy, perhaps someone may know where to set that up using XP. I have some old floppys that are Mac formatted, and need a "full Format", I know, throw them out and buy new floppys....lol. Bill
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Response Number 5
Name: EarlyBird Date: February 22, 2002 at 14:58:25 Pacific
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I can't beleive this! When you right click to format a disk in your a: drive it will do a FULL FORMAt by default. If you want a quick format you check the little box. In previous versions you had an option.
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Response Number 6
Name: Country Goat Date: February 25, 2002 at 01:15:24 Pacific
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Early Bird, Perhaps you are using Windows pro, I am using windows XP (home), and when I right click on A: the window pops up and there is NO option to do a "FULL" format, only a quick format. So unless I am using IBM formatted disks, the quick format, which is the only option I have on XP home, is no good on disks I want to reuse made on Macs.
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Response Number 7
Name: Todd Date: April 18, 2002 at 18:11:36 Pacific
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I have used Windows 2000 for a long time and its structured close to Windows XP. When I use windows format, under all the options are two checkboxes. One says quick format, the other says Enable Compression (its greyed out unless the format type is NTFS, which isn't allowed on floppies. Anyways, that quick format does the same thing the "full format" did before, just in reverse. i.e. if you want a quick format (just deleated the 'index' record on the floppy) you check it. If you want to do a full format (formats the entire disk and will also format it in a way that most data recovery programs can't find anything on it), you uncheck it. Don't believe me, take a disk you don't want, or is blank. Run format and try it with that option both checked and unchecked. You'll notice that if it's unchecked, it takes considerably longer to format it, that's because it's doing a full format.
i have the same problem and i know other people who have hade the same "windows experiens". it must be XP screwing with the floppy some how. i hade no problem before installing xp
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