Floppy Drive and XP

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I have reading alot of the questions and replies regarding floppy drives and
xp and thus far I am still confused. I have gone to the recommened sites and
articles but there is still no resolution. The floppy drives are not
defective and they use to run in xp pro but they just sit there basking in
the warm air blowing on them from the fans. I have tried to update the
drivers blah, blah, blah but I am told the devices are working properly. Do
I need to download files from the motherboard manufacturer?


Thanks

DieterKlausen
 
Confused about what or are we required to imagine your question. Did you format them?
 
Imagine what? It is pretty easy to figure out that the floppy drives were
working under the xp format before. From what other users have stated they
have problems with their systems detecting the drives as well. Did I format
them, what do you think? As I stated before the floppies physically work but
xp will not format them.
 
It seems that our masters at Microsoft have decreed the floppy disk
obsolete. So full backward compatibility for floppies was not built into XP.
I have found that if I format the floppies on my old Win98 puter they will
work fine on both platforms, but not reliably if they are formatted in XP.
The floppy disk is a common computer peripheral that many people still
utilize. An operating system that cannot properly use such a common device
is defective, IMHO.
 
XP demands that floppies be formatted correctly. 98 doesn't care (but does its own correctly) as 98 doesn't trust anything and always works out independently the information stored on disk while XP trusts the disk information the disk is reporting.

If you have problems between XP and 98 then the floppy alignment is off on one or both.
 
Is that to imply that "wanker" is synonymous with David Candy? Or is it that
you are incurious as to why many other users are having XP and drive issues?
 

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