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01-26-2003, 04:26 PM
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The Floppy On WinXP PRO
I was wondering if some of you got an experience like this... I've got 3.5 floppies formatted in Win98 and I've got no problems browsing them on a PC whose got a Win98 OS. Now, whenever I bring them to my PC whose got WinXP PRO, I usually have problems browsing them or even copying those files in them to my hard drive [thru COPY and PASTE method]. It then says, "the diskette in your drive is not formatted, would you like to format it?" I know my floppy drive's heads are clean. So, what do you think could this problem be...?
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01-26-2003, 04:53 PM
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The same thing happens to me... I guess its good to know that I'm not the only one...
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01-27-2003, 08:44 AM
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Thanks, Doobie. Anymore experiences like this out there? Any solution? I need your help...
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01-27-2003, 06:16 PM
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Relative head alignment between the 2 floppy drives in question could be off a bit. Try different floppy drives.
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01-28-2003, 09:06 AM
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I have the same problem with all my systems that have XP installed... Could it be all the floppy drives are bad?
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01-28-2003, 09:41 AM
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I've had it happen before too, but it was on a bad batch of floppy drives, I just swopped the drives.
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01-28-2003, 09:45 AM
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It's not the floppy, it's XP.
Something just isn't the same when XP makes a floppy. I've had tons of trouble when I formatted floppys in XP, put something on them, then transported them to a Win9x machine. Now I format all my floppys in Win98 (on the same machine as XP, dual-boot), and then put the data/program on it. Now it's readable in 9x and xp. Go figure. |
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01-28-2003, 02:49 PM
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might format them with some NTFS code in it or soething?
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01-28-2003, 06:46 PM
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No ... all windows OS's use FAT with floppies. I have noticed that older floppies that work fine on a 98 computer often times won't work on any of my XP computers. It can be a pain as I don't anything but XP Pro anymore. I usually have something I'm repairing that has 98 on it around, but even that is getting less common.
The floppies I create with XP have no problems being used on 98 however. There is definitely some sort of conflict I just have no idea what it is. If push comes to shove I just go next door and email to back to myself from my neighbors 98 box. |
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01-29-2003, 08:50 AM
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Thanks for stating your experience, Tuf. It really is a problem. Wonder what Microsoft is doin' about it. I guess they don't want us to use floppies anymore... maybe CD-RWs are standard these days.
And for the rest of you guys, thanks for sharin' your experiences. I don't have to worry about this anymore. |
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01-29-2003, 09:39 AM
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It is not just an XP problem. W2K also does the same thing. I think that it is just more picky about floppies than 98.
Last edited by mairving; 01-29-2003 at 09:41 AM. |
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