floppy's and win xp

[frustrated]

Every single time I try to open a floppy from old windows
nt/95? - i get the response - disk is not
formatted...Anything I can do????

 

[David Candy]

What type of floppies are they?

 

[Jim Macklin]

get an old w95/nt machine, open the floppy and copy it to a
CD or email the files.


message | Every single time I try to open a floppy from old windows
| nt/95? - i get the response - disk is not
| formatted...Anything I can do????

 

[Guest]

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What type of floppies are they?
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baby crying - have to run - but would love any suggestions!

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What type of floppies are they?

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[Al Smith]

Every single time I try to open a floppy from old windows

nt/95? - i get the response - disk is not
formatted...Anything I can do????

You might try installing in your Windows XP computer the old
floppy drive you used to write the files, if you happen to have it
still kicking around. It might be able to read them. Floppies
don't have eternal life. They may just have perished with age or
due to some environmental condition, such as mold growing on the
surfaces of the disks.

 

[David Candy]

Either get your wife to look after the baby or your hubby to look after the computer. Gender roles are important.

I want to know about the disks. Are they pre-formatted? Did you format them before using?

 

[Alex Nichol]

Every single time I try to open a floppy from old windows
nt/95? - i get the response - disk is not
formatted.

A floppy ought to have a byte set in its initial sector to describe
Media Type. The format in early versions of Windows (and on many disk
bought pre-formatted) does not set this correctly,. Win 9x does not
mind; XP does. Only way round is to format the floppies in XP, then
write whatever is needed to them in the old system

 

[Plato]

Every single time I try to open a floppy from old windows
nt/95? - i get the response - disk is not
formatted...Anything I can do????

Format new disks using XP. Then use those disks on a win9x pc to copy
the data to from your old disks. It should work then.

 

[Don Taylor]

A floppy ought to have a byte set in its initial sector to describe
Media Type. The format in early versions of Windows (and on many disk
bought pre-formatted) does not set this correctly,. Win 9x does not
mind; XP does. Only way round is to format the floppies in XP, then
write whatever is needed to them in the old system

Finally an explanation for this.
Is there a utility anywhere that will fix this byte?
And thus avoid having to destroy all the data already on the disk?

thank you

 

[David Candy]

I asked what type of floppies and you REFUSED to answer. So therefore you should go elsewhere.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Finally an explanation for this.
Is there a utility anywhere that will fix this byte?
And thus avoid having to destroy all the data already on the disk?

You could probably manage it with Norton DiskEdit for DOS, run from a
DOS boot. You would have to look up just which byte and where in the
first sector - I don't remember off hand

 

[Frank]

A floppy ought to have a byte set in its initial sector to describe
Media Type. The format in early versions of Windows (and on many
disk
bought pre-formatted) does not set this correctly,. Win 9x does not
mind; XP does. Only way round is to format the floppies in XP, then
write whatever is needed to them in the old system

I would be more inclined to check to see if __sfloppy.sys__is
__corrupted or compressed__.
I have an old machine that has two floppy drives a: & b:. I
run format /u and scandisk /surface on any and all diskettes.
I usually get two to four bad disks from a new box of fifty. I
use either a MSDOS 6.22 or a WIN98 boot disk. If any
B's show up in scandisk I throw the diskette into the trash.
I have no problems whatsoever on my XPPro boxen using
floppy disks.

FWIW

 

[Semper]

The following may be the information you need:


Floppy Disk is Not Accessible, Not Formatted, or Not Recognized by
Windows



http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;140060&Product=winxp