Dos diskette error in NTFS

[John M. Emler]

Whenever I put a diskette formatted in Dos FAT16 in the floppy drive,
the system tries to read the disk, but doesn't display anything. When
I try putting in another computer (like my sisters laptop running
Windows 98), the system can't read or format the disk.

I am runninng XP Pro with NTFS. Has anyone else encountered this
problem. I have some files that I need stored on floppy diskettes that
I can't get to because of this. Any suggestions?

Thank

John M. Emler

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

It is not a problem to have a floppy disk formatted in FAT16 in XP. That's
the best you'll ever get.

And since you add that the disk cannot be read by another PC, I'm tempted to
think that unfortunately the disk has become corrupted. Floppy disks
are/were not a very reliable way of backing up data. I would have to say
that probably 50% of my old floppy disks cannot be read now by any of my
PCs, although I was very successful a couple of weeks ago at retrieving
files from one first written to floppy in 1988 - no, make that absolutely
shocked that the files were still readable and copyable! Needless to say
they are now fully backed up to DVD!

 

[Bob Willard]

Whenever I put a diskette formatted in Dos FAT16 in the floppy drive,
the system tries to read the disk, but doesn't display anything. When
I try putting in another computer (like my sisters laptop running
Windows 98), the system can't read or format the disk.

I am runninng XP Pro with NTFS. Has anyone else encountered this
problem. I have some files that I need stored on floppy diskettes that
I can't get to because of this. Any suggestions?

Thank

John M. Emler

Just a nit: under DOS and WinWhatever, FDs use FAT12.