Floppy disk sharing between XP and 2000

[Yvonne Liu]

Hi

I'm a lab manager at a college running Windows 2000 on all
our computers. We've noticed that when students bring in
floppy disks with files created in XP, they get "floppy
disk not formatted" error messages when trying to open
their files. We can open their files however using a Mac
running OS X.

Has anyone else seen this problem? What's a workaround?

Thanks.

 

[JAX]

My personal experience was, I installed XP and had the same problem as you.
I tried every suggestion I could find, including changing floppy drives 3 or
4 times. Nothing helped. I have come to the conclusion that some XP disks
have faulty floppy drivers, as, some people have no problem with floppies
and others do. I have found information that this problem is recognized and
is supposed to be addressed in SP2.

I was able to resolve the problem on my machine by installing the 3-mode
driver that you can find from the following link. The article is rather
wordy and the instructions are difficult to follow but, it worked for me.
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]&rnum=1

HTH, JAX