Reading Floppy - xp says not formated

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Connie

I have a floppy disk (back up) that was created in a
program using windows 98, when I try to read the a drive
it tells me disk not formatted....... but if I put the
disk in other computer running 98 the files are there. Why
can't xp see these files on the a drive?
 
Connie said:
I have a floppy disk (back up) that was created in a
program using windows 98, when I try to read the a drive
it tells me disk not formatted....... but if I put the
disk in other computer running 98 the files are there. Why
can't xp see these files on the a drive?
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There are two realistic possibilities. One is that the two drives are
physically out of alignment with each other. These days they are often
pretty cheapjack items,, and not properly calibrated. So format a disk
on the XP machine, put some files on it and try to read it on the other
- if that fails, this is the problem

Second is that the XP software did not get properly 'registered' at
setup. It is difficult to pin down, but the failure does seem to arise.
I suggest going to Control Panel - System - Hardware - Device Manager
and highlighting first the floppy drive, then the Floppy disk controller
(FDC) and in each case Action - Remove. OK out and reboot and let PnP
rediscover it
 
Connie said:
There are two realistic possibilities. One is that the two drives are
physically out of alignment with each other. These days they are often
pretty cheapjack items,, and not properly calibrated. So format a disk
on the XP machine, put some files on it and try to read it on the other
- if that fails, this is the problem

Second is that the XP software did not get properly 'registered' at
setup. It is difficult to pin down, but the failure does seem to arise.
I suggest going to Control Panel - System - Hardware - Device Manager
and highlighting first the floppy drive, then the Floppy disk controller
(FDC) and in each case Action - Remove. OK out and reboot and let PnP
rediscover it
Click to expand...

There was a post from someone with XP on one drive and Win98 on the
other. The same floppy could be read by the win98 drive and come up as
unformatted with XP. XP has a real problem with floppies. It could
read perhaps 70% of my 1.44 floppies, none at all of the expanded
type.
..
 
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