running XP
When I try to access a floppy drive with a floppy inserted I get the
following

Disk in Drive A is not formatted
Do you want to format
yes or no
If I say yes Windows comes back and says can not format disk

the drive powers up green light comes on and it looks like it's trying
to read the disk
the disk has files and is error free


would like some help

> When I try to access a floppy drive with a floppy inserted I get the
> following:
> Disk in Drive A is not formatted
> Do you want to format
> yes or no
> If I say yes Windows comes back and says can not format disk
> the drive powers up green light comes on and it looks like it's trying
> to read the disk
> the disk has files and is error free

Have you tried another floppy disk? Does it do this for all disk put into
the drive? If it is a singularity, then obvious something was done to
affect your floppy disk.

- E

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 23:51:31 -0500, "Eric Scofield"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>> When I try to access a floppy drive with a floppy inserted I get the
>> following:
>> Disk in Drive A is not formatted
>> Do you want to format
>> yes or no
>> If I say yes Windows comes back and says can not format disk
>> the drive powers up green light comes on and it looks like it's trying
>> to read the disk
>> the disk has files and is error free
>
>Have you tried another floppy disk? Does it do this for all disk put into
>the drive? If it is a singularity, then obvious something was done to
>affect your floppy disk.
>
>- E
>


all disks

> running XP
> When I try to access a floppy drive with a floppy inserted I get the
> following
> Disk in Drive A is not formatted
> Do you want to format
> yes or no
> If I say yes Windows comes back and says can not format disk
> the drive powers up green light comes on and it looks like it's trying
> to read the disk
> the disk has files and is error free

Is this a new floppy drive or an old one?

- E

nothing to do with the floppy drive....
it`s a bios setting...
without looking at it , i think it`s something like " floppy copy protection
" or something...
have to disable it in the bios...
just look at your settings , in there somewhere...

brett...


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news(E-Mail Removed)...
> running XP
> When I try to access a floppy drive with a floppy inserted I get the
> following
>
> Disk in Drive A is not formatted
> Do you want to format
> yes or no
> If I say yes Windows comes back and says can not format disk
>
> the drive powers up green light comes on and it looks like it's trying
> to read the disk
> the disk has files and is error free
>
>
> would like some help

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:49:50 +1030, "Brett" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>nothing to do with the floppy drive....
>it`s a bios setting...
>without looking at it , i think it`s something like " floppy copy protection
>" or something...
>have to disable it in the bios...
>just look at your settings , in there somewhere...
>
>brett...
>
>
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news(E-Mail Removed)...
>> running XP
>> When I try to access a floppy drive with a floppy inserted I get the
>> following
>>
>> Disk in Drive A is not formatted
>> Do you want to format
>> yes or no
>> If I say yes Windows comes back and says can not format disk
>>
>> the drive powers up green light comes on and it looks like it's trying
>> to read the disk
>> the disk has files and is error free
>>
>>
>> would like some help
>


I contacted the manufacturer the drive mechanism is the problem. So
off to buy a new one

thanks for the help