Floppy Drive

[Guest]

I have a brand new dell with windows XP pro. Any diskette
I insert in the drive I got the message that the diskette
is not formatted. I try them on another PC they work fine.
I swapped the floppy with another one that works and I
still get the same error. Any ideas????

 

[Frank]

| I have a brand new dell with windows XP pro. Any diskette
| I insert in the drive I got the message that the diskette
| is not formatted. I try them on another PC they work fine.
| I swapped the floppy with another one that works and I
| still get the same error. Any ideas????

Hello

Try both links below

In Win XP Will not read floppy drives or diskettes.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;282470

Floppy will not format under Win XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm

 

[W. Schmidt]

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