Can't read floppy after XP

[mctired]

A friend was working on a class assignment, saving it to a
floppy on a WinXP computer at work. She tried to open it
on their home WinXP computer and it said the floppy needed
formatting. She tried to open it on the work computer
again, and it said the floppy needed formatting.

I tried to open it on my Win2K computer at work and it
told me I did not have access rights to use that drive
(diskette). Finally! Something new.

I took the diskette to a Win95 computer and was able to
see the directory in a DOS window. I did have to choose
Fail many times before the directory finally displayed.

I used an old copy of PC Tools to try to undelete files,
hoping to find an earlier version of her assignment. I
found several and tried to undelete the ones that sounded
most promising. But it never could get past the CRC
errors.

What in the WORLD does XP do to a floppy that would cause
all these problems?

McTired

 

[Ray Mewshaw]

I have had the same type of problems. I'm using winXP pro and for some
reason NTFS and the floppy don't get along well. Vendor of a product I use
have the floppy as their key disk. It has failed on me several times. The
vendor acknowledges the problem. Microsoft does not. The vendor says it is
in the operating system and since Microsoft is unable to fix the issue they
are redesigning their key disk system. It's too bad that Microsoft can't get
such a trivial issue resolved. It is impacting more and more people.