Not reading floppy disks

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Hi,

Each time I insert a floppy, I get the following
message: "The disk in Drive A is not formatted. Do you
want to reformat it now?".

This happens on each disk, and they work on other PC's.
Any idea what has gone wrong and what I need to do to
repair it?
 
Your floppy drive may need cleaning or could be out of alignment. Make a DOS
startup disk on one of the other computers and see if you can boot from it.
If not there is a hardware problem. If you can and have no trouble reading
it in DOS there is a problem in XP.
 

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