Floppy drive not working properly

Posted: 07-16-2003, 11:39 PM
My floppy drive was working fine. Now whenever I insert a
disk in it, it won't recognize it and ask to format it.
When I try to format, the operation is not sucessful.
What might cause that? and how can I fix it? Thanks!
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E.P. van Westendorp
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Re: Floppy drive not working properly
Posted: 07-17-2003, 08:12 AM
I think it's clear by now Windows XP has a problem with floppies.

Ofcourse a floppy disk can be corrupted, a drive can be defective or a
cable not connected the right way but the number of floppy problems I
have read about when all this is not applicable should be alarming
enough to awake MS.

One other fact may sometimes play a role however.
Floppy Disk is Not Accessible, Not Formatted, or Not Recognized by Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;140060

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Reed wrote:
> Well....The problem is that I tried several that are opening find on other
> computers..!???
>
> "emen" <eminbagh@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:059701c34bf6$6512ba30$a301280a@phx.gbl...
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>>I have had that problem a lot. If you are using the same
>>floppy disk to check your floppy drive, there is a very
>>great chance that actually your floppy is damaged. Try
>>using another floppy disk. I don't think your floppy drive
>>has any problems. When a floppy disk is damaged, floppy
>>drive won't be able to detect that floppy disk and it will
>>show that error message.
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