Formating Floppies

[Guest]

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In my new computer with Windows XP I can formate 1.44 M disks but not 720 K disks. Is this a limitation of the system or with the drive. Is there any program that can fix it

 

[Duh]

It's an XP limitation, see this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;302113&Product=winxp

Hi
In my new computer with Windows XP I can formate 1.44 M disks but not 720

K disks. Is this a limitation of the system or with the drive. Is there any
program that can fix it?

 

[Guest]

Thank you for the answer
Do you have ant suggetions how to fix it?

 

[Bob Willard]

Thank you for the answer!
Do you have ant suggetions how to fix it?

Run W9x, or W3x, or DOS.