XP won't read floppy disk created on Windows 98 system

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philo

XP won't read floppy disk created on Windows 98 system
help plz
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XP has *no* issues with reading win98 floppies...
one of the drives has misaligned heads...
more than likely the older machine, presumably the one with win98 on it
 
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Opinicus

XP won't read floppy disk created on Windows 98 system
help plz
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It's got nothing to do with WinXP or Win98. What you've got here is a floppy
that's gone bad through misrecording, mishandling, or whatever. If the disk
can be read on *any* machine get the data off it onto that machine and then
try transferring the data using a method *other than* a floppy disk. (USB
pen drive, CD, email, network, install the hard disk in another machine as a
slave...)
 
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Bob I

Take a blank floppy that was formatted on the XP computer over to the
Windows 98 system and copy the contents of the first floppy disk to it.
 

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