Formatting a floppy...

[scottie]

Every time i put a floppy into my drive to explore it or
use it, i get floppy is not formatted, okay i know theres
info on there so i put a blank floppy in and go for
format. It runs all the way to the end then says. Windows
was unable to complete the format. I have changed floppy
drives and there cables, i have removed the hardware and
reinstalled the hardware but to no avail.

Can anyone shed some light on this.....

I am running XP Pro with sp1 and all the relevent updates
from ms
..

 

[me]

motherboard problem?

 

[Michael Jo]

Every time i put a floppy into my drive to explore it or

use it, i get floppy is not formatted, okay i know theres
info on there so i put a blank floppy in and go for
format. It runs all the way to the end then says. Windows
was unable to complete the format. I have changed floppy
drives and there cables, i have removed the hardware and
reinstalled the hardware but to no avail.

Can anyone shed some light on this.....

Talking about lights, is your FDD light constantly on?

 

[Scottie]

DOne a thorough check everything is ok

-----Original Message-----
motherboard problem?
.

 

[scottie]

No my light only comes on during sys init then goes out

 

[ekud]

Just a remote possibility but I had a similar problem once. Turned out, in
my BIOS, the floppy was set as a 5-1/4 and not a 3-1/2. Not sure how it got
changed. Of course the system was always trying to read and/or format a
1.2M floppy instead of a 3-1/2 1.44M floppy. Check you Bios setting to make
sure. Cheers.

Ekud