Me to Xp

[Marc]

I backed up some files under Me on Floppies, now with XP
installed, the floppies can not be read. It asks if I
want to format the floppy. What can I do to get the
files from the floppies, other than e-mailing the files
from an older computer with Me? Thanks

 

[Harry Ohrn]

It sounds like the read/write heads on either the floppy drive on the Me
machine or the floppy drive on the XP machine are not aligned. Consequently
the disks can't be read on the opposing system. See if the disks can be
opened on a third system. If so the problem might be with the floppy on the
XP drive. As floppy drives become cheaper and cheaper there are more
problems with them.

If you have the desire you can always pull the floppy drive out of the Me
system and attached it to the floppy controller and power cable on the XP
system (just swap it out) then the disks should be readable.