Floppy drive does not read disks

[Sandy]

So, I have a floppy drive. In Linux and MSDOS, it can read
my floppy (3.5) disks fine. The disks also can be read on
other windows OS. My computer has an A: and its listed as
the floppy appropriately. It says the device is working
fine. However, if I put anything in there, it says that
the disk needs to be reformatted and can't read it. It's
not a hardware problem sicne it works on the otehr OSes on
the SAME machine and its not the disk for that reason and
the fact that it works on my machine and others -- what's up?

 

[Junjun]

i've posted a similar problem a month ago. i think this is
a winXP problem. MS has got to FIX something!!! BTW, when
is the exact date that SP2 would be released?

 

[Maureen Goldman]

So, I have a floppy drive. In Linux and MSDOS, it can read
my floppy (3.5) disks fine. The disks also can be read on
other windows OS. My computer has an A: and its listed as
the floppy appropriately. It says the device is working
fine. However, if I put anything in there, it says that
the disk needs to be reformatted and can't read it. It's
not a hardware problem sicne it works on the otehr OSes on
the SAME machine and its not the disk for that reason and
the fact that it works on my machine and others -- what's up?

Try reformatting a disk in that machine using XP, copy something onto
it, and then see if the computer can read it. XP and its reaction to
floppies is akin to The Princess and the Pea (sensitive, and a royal
pain in the neck).