1.44mb floppy is not 1.44mb

when I try to down load the xp boot discs from microsoft it says the capacity
of the disc being used is to small. Standard high density floppy. What floppy
do I need to download the boot discs to? Ive tried this numerous times and
also when you check properties of a floppy it says 1.38mb. Why? this is even
after formatting. I need the disks because my computer needs them to
reinstall xp. Please help

george154302 schrieb:
> when I try to down load the xp boot discs from microsoft it says the capacity
> of the disc being used is to small. Standard high density floppy. What floppy
> do I need to download the boot discs to? Ive tried this numerous times and
> also when you check properties of a floppy it says 1.38mb. Why? this is even
> after formatting. I need the disks because my computer needs them to
> reinstall xp. Please help

These are disc-images. You can't just copy the files over. You need a
tool to write the disc-images to the discs. The procedure should be
documented where you downloaded the files.

From memory when you download, and run the file it then instructs you to
insert floppy, and press a key when ready etc

PS Why do you need the floppys, the win cd is bootable

"george154302" <george154302@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BD76E577-31FC-4464-9720-549FE4986E92@microsoft.com...
> when I try to down load the xp boot discs from microsoft it says the
capacity
> of the disc being used is to small. Standard high density floppy. What
floppy
> do I need to download the boot discs to? Ive tried this numerous times and
> also when you check properties of a floppy it says 1.38mb. Why? this is
even
> after formatting. I need the disks because my computer needs them to
> reinstall xp. Please help

Im getting them right from the microsoft web site and it doesnt say anything
about needing any tool to write them to disc

"Mario Schmidt" wrote:

> george154302 schrieb:
> > when I try to down load the xp boot discs from microsoft it says the capacity
> > of the disc being used is to small. Standard high density floppy. What floppy
> > do I need to download the boot discs to? Ive tried this numerous times and
> > also when you check properties of a floppy it says 1.38mb. Why? this is even
> > after formatting. I need the disks because my computer needs them to
> > reinstall xp. Please help
>
> These are disc-images. You can't just copy the files over. You need a
> tool to write the disc-images to the discs. The procedure should be
> documented where you downloaded the files.
>

No one has told me yet why I cant get the files onto floppy. Why are they
only 1.38mb and not 1.44 as listed?

"DL" wrote:

> From memory when you download, and run the file it then instructs you to
> insert floppy, and press a key when ready etc
>
> PS Why do you need the floppys, the win cd is bootable
>
> "george154302" <george154302@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BD76E577-31FC-4464-9720-549FE4986E92@microsoft.com...
> > when I try to down load the xp boot discs from microsoft it says the
> capacity
> > of the disc being used is to small. Standard high density floppy. What
> floppy
> > do I need to download the boot discs to? Ive tried this numerous times and
> > also when you check properties of a floppy it says 1.38mb. Why? this is
> even
> > after formatting. I need the disks because my computer needs them to
> > reinstall xp. Please help
>
>
>

"The Setup boot disks are available so that you can run the Setup program on
computers that cannot use a bootable CD-ROM."
How to obtain Windows XP Setup boot disks
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310994

1.44 MB is a nominal term.

If you look at the properties of a blank 3 1/2" disk you will see next to
Free space: 1,457,664 bytes 1.38 MB.

As a measure of computer processor storage and real and virtual memory, a
megabyte (abbreviated MB) is 2 to the 20th power bytes, or 1,048,576 bytes
in decimal notation.

Where a byte is 1024 not 1000.

1024 * 1024 = 1,048,576
1000 * 1000 = 1,000,000

1,457,664/1,000,000 = 1.457664 or 1.44 MB
1,457,664/1,048,576 = 1.39013671875 or 1.38 MB

Binary vs. Decimal Measurements
http://www.pcguide.com/intro/fun/bindec.htm

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:C8B3E6A7-6364-45AF-8A9C-310A06C503AA@microsoft.com,
george154302 <george154302@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
> No one has told me yet why I cant get the files onto floppy. Why are they
> only 1.38mb and not 1.44 as listed?
>
> "DL" wrote:
>
>> From memory when you download, and run the file it then instructs you to
>> insert floppy, and press a key when ready etc
>>
>> PS Why do you need the floppys, the win cd is bootable
>>
>> "george154302" <george154302@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:BD76E577-31FC-4464-9720-549FE4986E92@microsoft.com...
>>> when I try to down load the xp boot discs from microsoft it says the
>>> capacity of the disc being used is to small. Standard high density
>>> floppy. What floppy do I need to download the boot discs to? Ive tried
>>> this numerous times and also when you check properties of a floppy it
>>> says 1.38mb. Why? this is even after formatting. I need the disks
>>> because my computer needs them to reinstall xp. Please help