floppies

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I have home XP, how do I read floppies created on a
machine that is Win '98se? I insert into floppy drive
onthe XP machine and it says "Disk in Drive A not
formatted.
 
Bart said:
I have home XP, how do I read floppies created on a
machine that is Win '98se? I insert into floppy drive
onthe XP machine and it says "Disk in Drive A not
formatted.
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Floppy formats are the same with Win9x and Win XP. You have some other
problem, perhaps bad media or a bad drive.
 
Bart said:
I have home XP, how do I read floppies created on a
machine that is Win '98se? I insert into floppy drive
onthe XP machine and it says "Disk in Drive A not
formatted.
Click to expand...

There are issues with XP and floppy drives, floppy disks. Try copying the
data on the disk to a new formatted floppy disk from a system using 98. You
may need to change the floppy drive.
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