USB FDD Corrupted during XP bootup

[CalvinNSlater]

I have a USB FDD that I can boot from and also use in XP - works
perfect. If however, I have a diskette in the drive during bootup of
XP, during the bootup process it makes some funny noises and then the
diskette can NOT be read.

The event log shows:
The device, \Device\Floppy0, has a bad block.

I can always reformat the diskette and get it working again. If I boot
up XP with no diskette inserted in the USB drive and then insert the
diskette everything works perfectly.

I have tried this on an HP and Dell machine with same results.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Andy]

I don't see this problem. Could be an anomaly in the design of your
USB FDD.