I can't read floppy disk infor saved prior to XP update.
Anyone know how to access old data on 3.5 floppys

"Pungo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I can't read floppy disk infor saved prior to XP update.
> Anyone know how to access old data on 3.5 floppys

XP will happily read old floppy disks. If you cannot
read them then either your floppy disks or your
disk drive may be marginal.

"XP will happily read old floppy disks. If you canno
read them then either your floppy disks or you
disk drive may be marginal.

LOL, right. Windows xp is sucking, my self, melissa and more than I can recall alone in these forums have asked for help on this. Do a google search and you will find even more people having problems with xp and the ability to read floppy disks. Computers that had working floppy drives then had the missfortune of downgrading to xp all of a sudden have lost the ability to read their floppy drives

I my self have tried 2 brands now, sony and the mitsumi floppy on my new computer and neither worked. Replaced the cables 3 times, the power cord and supply once and even returned the mitsumi for another brand new drive and nothing. At least the people using nt got a fix for their bugy os, if only xp users could be so lucky

"Bailey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "XP will happily read old floppy disks. If you cannot
> read them then either your floppy disks or your
> disk drive may be marginal."
>
> LOL, right. Windows xp is sucking, my self, melissa and more than I can
recall alone in these forums have asked for help on this. Do a google search
and you will find even more people having problems with xp and the ability
to read floppy disks. Computers that had working floppy drives then had the
missfortune of downgrading to xp all of a sudden have lost the ability to
read their floppy drives.
>
> I my self have tried 2 brands now, sony and the mitsumi floppy on my new
computer and neither worked. Replaced the cables 3 times, the power cord and
supply once and even returned the mitsumi for another brand new drive and
nothing. At least the people using nt got a fix for their bugy os, if only
xp users could be so lucky.
>

I don't rely on people's reports about something or other not working,
unless they can demonstrate that they have run some rigorous tests.

To substantiate your claim that WinXP is unable to read floppy disks that
could be read under previous versions of Windows, you need to do this:

- Get a Win98 boot disk from www.bootdisk.com.
- Boot the problem PC with this disk.
- Pop in a floppy disk that was unreadable under WinXP.
- Attempt to read the same files.

I wait with interest for your report.

Thanks for the reply Pegasus
I willg et the disk thiseve when I get home and can work on it. In the mean time may want to search these forums if you have not already. As mentioned alot of people are having this problem. With both brand new builds and with upgraded machines.

Btw my mitsumi drive works perfectly when I use the same cables from the xp machine tho toss it in a machine that is currently using windows 98 so the drive works.

"Bailey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the reply Pegasus,
> I willg et the disk thiseve when I get home and can work on it. In the
mean time may want to search these forums if you have not already. As
mentioned alot of people are having this problem. With both brand new builds
and with upgraded machines..
>
> Btw my mitsumi drive works perfectly when I use the same cables from the
xp machine tho toss it in a machine that is currently using windows 98 so
the drive works.

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To get a floppy disk drive to work, each of the following elements must
work:
- The drive itself
- The ribbon cable
- The controller on the motherboard
- The operating system

If you move the problem drive to another machine, using the same cable, then
you're changing two parameters: The operating system, and the controller.
How do you know which one is faulty?

If you boot the machine with a Win98 disk then you're changing one parameter
only, and you immediately know where the problem lies.

I also have had problems as of late with my floppy drive. I've removed it from my device manager (controller and Drive) tried changing the drivers to three mode and replacing the drive itself and cables
I put in a win ME start-up disk and did get the following errors reported
"The following file is missing or corrupted, Command.com"

"jgjbj" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I also have had problems as of late with my floppy drive. I've removed it
from my device manager (controller and Drive) tried changing the drivers to
three mode and replacing the drive itself and cables.
> I put in a win ME start-up disk and did get the following errors reported.
> "The following file is missing or corrupted, Command.com"

So why don't you get a Win98 boot disk from the site I quoted in my previous
reply?

got the win 98 boot disk, selected option #1 w/cdrom support. Message "Not a valid FAT or Fat32 format". I am using NTFS on win xp pro 160 gig. Of course I don't want to reformt
It seems that now I am able to open more floppies that before, but there are a few that are a few that I can't on the xp machine but can on the ME machine. I can't even get the properties of the files
For example, On one disk are two files a bmp. and a word pad file. When I try to access this disk the XP machine says to reformat the disk, on the ME machine both open up fine. Another disk created on the XP machine created March 5 (a quicken back-up file) will show when when I explore the disk but the drive will run continously when I try to display the properties of the file. Not so on the ME machine the file and properties will display promptly
Your thoughts?

"jgjbj" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> got the win 98 boot disk, selected option #1 w/cdrom support. Message "Not
a valid FAT or Fat32 format". I am using NTFS on win xp pro 160 gig. Of
course I don't want to reformt.
> It seems that now I am able to open more floppies that before, but there
are a few that are a few that I can't on the xp machine but can on the ME
machine. I can't even get the properties of the files.
> For example, On one disk are two files a bmp. and a word pad file. When I
try to access this disk the XP machine says to reformat the disk, on the ME
machine both open up fine. Another disk created on the XP machine created
March 5 (a quicken back-up file) will show when when I explore the disk but
the drive will run continously when I try to display the properties of the
file. Not so on the ME machine the file and properties will display
promptly.
> Your thoughts?

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Download & create the Win98 boot disk on a friend's PC, then boot your
machine with it. You will probably find that your floppy disk drive is
marginal. Replace it - they are cheap!