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Floppy and Windows XP Problems

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jm9239

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I went to My Computer and double clicked on the floppy icon and Windows XP said the floppy isn't formatted and prompted me to format it so I clicked yes. But that still didn't work, giving me an error "Windows was unable to complete the format." Also, in format options, I tried checking "Create an MS-DOS startup disk," but Windows said "An unexpected I/O error occurred"

I also tried this with other floppies (which work fine in another computer running WindowsME).

i think that it's a TEAC drive.

any ideas?
 
I have a friend who just called this evening with the same problem on a new system. I suggested the same thing; try a new drive/system and see what happens. The problem is that all his backups are on floppy's from his old, win98 system. He is screwed if we can't get this figured out. Ideas, other than what we have so far, would be greatly appreciated. TIA.
 
Well, obviously, it's either a bad drive or bad media.

Bad floppies happen. My policy is that if the floppy doesn't format the FIRST time, it goes in the trash. Floppies are cheap. My data isn't.

If it's happening with multiple floppy disks, sounds like the drive is bad.
 
I had problems with my floppy drive also under XP, I switched it out and it worked again although there still are many types of media that it refuses to read giving me the formatt crap and then not complying! This was never like that under any other OS!
 
I had my floppy drive go bad on me during a new install, and it ruined half my floppies. Got the same errors you have. I switched to an LS120 and all is well. After changing to the LS120 I checked all those disks and they indeed were bad, so I know the drive killed them.I dont know if it was just coincidence, a problem with the tyan motherboard, or what.. but that is a very inoportune time when changing over to a new system and doing a fresh install for sure.
 
I had a bad floppy drive. Went to a local computer store and bought a new floppy drive for $14. Fixed my problem.

In your current floppy drive put a disk in it. Open a DOS window and log onto the floppy disk drive. From the prompt type CHKDSK then hit Enter. Should tell you on screen if you have any problems with the drive or disk.

Sometimes it can be just the ribbon cable is plugged in backwards. If the drive light stays on all the time that could be the problem. Easy to check out.

 
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