LS-120 displays error when trying to access disk

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Hi all, new the the newsgroups, and just need a little help with a problem.

I recently installed XP pro on a friends notebook, and now she is having
some trouble accessing the FDD.

The error message is "The disk in drive A is not formatted. Do you want to
format it now"

Well, the disk IS formatted and works fine in other computers. So I tried to
format it on the notebook in question, but no dice, it doesn't want to read
it.

Any thoughts on why the notebook doesn't want to read or write to the
floppy? It might be worth noting that I have only tried this with 1.44-MB
disks.

Cheers for your help guys!

~rosco
 
Rosco,

I also am having the same sort of problem with the Mitsubushi LS-120
SuperDisk drive. It appears that the Mitsubishi LS-120 SuperDisk drive no
longer functions correctly under Windows XP although it did originally.
Somewhere along the critical updates, etc. it appears to have dropped the
ability to read a SuperDisk (can still read a floppy) and format either a
SuperDisk or a floppy. Yet no mention of this ever occurred with any of the
updates. And Windows XP Home OS cannot find a newer version of the driver
than that originally supplied (Driver provided by Microsoft, dated 7/1/2001
version 5.1.2600.0 and signed by Microsoft Windows Publisher) which as I
stated, originally did support the LS-120 drive. Now all it does is say the
disk is not formatted, asks whether you want to format it, and if you say
yes, comes up with a blank format window which has no values for capacity,
file system, allocation unit size, nor volume label and if you just click on
Start or even with Quick Format selected it does not format the disk but just
returns to the same window. Note, this has nothing to do with NTFS format as
it doesn't even give us the option to pick a format (blank). Anybody have
ideas to help?

Thanks,

Bill
 
Thanks for the info there Willow, nice to see that I am not the only one out
there with this problem (Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing!)

Just giving this a bump to see if anyone else can help.

~Rosco
 
I have exactly the same problem with my Mitsubishi LS-120. I am running Win
ME and have had to reinstall due to a hard disk failure. The LS-120 worked
fine before the reinstall but will only read 1.44 floppys now. I'd be
grateful for any clues as to settings to check, etc.
Thanks
tqsplit
 
I don't even get an error. XP just does not see the drive. I actually DID
find a fix on the web, and my PCMCIA LS-120 Superdrive worked FINE! But after
having to reinstall a harddrive, now I can't find the info. Some setting has
to be changed to see the drive. I think it has something to do with XP
preferring 32 bit operations, and the Superdrive is 16 bit hardware.

SOMEBODY please help us!!! No one told us we'd have this incompatibility
problem when we switched to XP.

Don
 
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