Me to XP

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Marc

Thanks for the info guys, but I have only one system. I
went from Me to XP, on the same computer. I backed up
some files on the floppy under Me, then formatted the
hard drive and installed XP. After the Xp install was
complete, I tried getting the files from the floppy, and
then it said the floppy is not formatted. I don't have
another computer readily here to get the files with, or I
would for sure. What now? Marc
 
Mark,

I am currently investigating this behavior here at Microsoft. The current
hypothesis (when the issue is not traced back to a bad floppy drive or
disk) is that when a file is being written in the 9x codebase that if it is
removed from the drive before the green light turns off, (UI closes before
drive is finished) that something in the first 32 sectors of the disk
becomes corrupt. Windows XP and Windows 2000 will not read the disk if
this corruption is present.

The best work-around I have to offer is try to put the disk in Windows 9x
computer and it should be readable.

Best regards,

Mike Truitt
Microsoft Corporation
 
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