Floppy Drive

[zygh]

I have Win XP Pro, and every time I put a floppy disk
into my floppy drive it always asks me if I want to
format it, which I don't, because there is stuff on it
that I want. And when I do try to format a disk an error
pops up and says that to can't complete the formating.
Yes the Floppy drive is installed properly...or at least
accoring to the instructions...so any ideas...and why
dose XP do this?

 

[anon2]

-----Original Message-----
I have Win XP Pro, and every time I put a floppy disk
into my floppy drive it always asks me if I want to
format it, which I don't, because there is stuff on it
that I want. And when I do try to format a disk an error
pops up and says that to can't complete the formating.
Yes the Floppy drive is installed properly...or at least
accoring to the instructions...so any ideas...and why
dose XP do this?
.
This seems to be a common problem... I am having the

same problem and am not able to rectify it... anyone out
there have any ideas?

 

[Guest]

I have the same problem and have been reading a few discussion groups on this matter. So far l'm heading to either upgrading my BIOS, completely throwing out all my 3.5" disks and getting new ones for XP or manually going in and changing the disk sector of all the disks. I think l'll give the former a go. Frank...do you think that will work? I've gone through the links you posted but l gather they wanted me to get new disks.
I have also seen on some sites that the error messages obtain could be from conflicting IRQs.
To iterate, my error messages were:
1) A drive not formatted...Format A drive...unable to format A drive
2) In a MS-DOS window, it mentions that either the drivers are bad or the volume is bad

 

[JAX]

The information on the following link may be of interest to you. I have
downloaded and installed the 3 mode driver that is offered in the link and
so far, it works for me. The article is rather long and the instructions are
difficult to follow but, as I said, it seems to work for me.
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]&rnum=5

If this does not help, all you need do is remove the driver and up-date to
the native driver.

HTH, JAX

I have the same problem and have been reading a few discussion groups on

this matter. So far l'm heading to either upgrading my BIOS, completely
throwing out all my 3.5" disks and getting new ones for XP or manually going
in and changing the disk sector of all the disks. I think l'll give the
former a go. Frank...do you think that will work? I've gone through the
links you posted but l gather they wanted me to get new disks.

I have also seen on some sites that the error messages obtain could be from conflicting IRQs.
To iterate, my error messages were:
1) A drive not formatted...Format A drive...unable to format A drive
2) In a MS-DOS window, it mentions that either the drivers are bad or the

volume is bad