re: Win98 can't read Win95 floppies Friday, October 10, 2003 at 11:00 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Lee (243 messages posted) I'm not impressed with 'new'. Been there, done that, same problem. Have you at least tried to copy the files in boot to DOS mode? DOS always does a better job of mounting a floppy especially when Windows says it isn't formatted. I'm somewhat of an expert on the subject - I regularly transfer Atari 8 bit files through the internet and my 2nd floppy (360k) to read directly on Atari 8 bit systems. This is no simple task as the 8 bit format is 256 bytes per sector. Windows will not work for this at all, but DOS mode does and perfectly too. XP uses 98 startup disk and I can not only make but boot MSDOS 1.1 and 3.3 disks on my system - what's incompatable? Because you have troubles with Windows formatted floppies doesn't mean you've proved that any systems are exclusive to each others floppies. Windows format=pooo bad. DOS format=thumbs up. Perhaps I should have stated that the floppies may in fact, not be bad at all, but just badly formatted by Windows? As in not your fault and not truely bad floppies - this is a Windows floppy driver problem and it only gets worse with win2000 and XP. Your troubles with floppy transfer will end immeadiately if you start formatting them in boot to DOS mode, I guarantee it. I remain hopeful that your files are NOT lost, but you will have to drop to boot to DOS mode to copy them to your hard drive. On Friday, October 10, 2003 at 2:29 pm, Stan wrote: >These are new floppies formatted in Windows 95 on a Toshiba laptop. The majority >of the files are zip files. The laptop is gone now, but my desktop computer with >Win98 says they are not formatted or cannot read this disk. I do not believe the >floppies are bad, and I have had trouble in the past going from one computer to another >with a floppy disk. > > Written in response to: re: Win98 can't read Win95 floppies (Stan: Friday, October 10, 2003 at 2:29 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Win98 can't read Win95 floppies (Stan: Thu, Oct 9, 2003, 8:45 pm) re: Win98 can't read Win95 floppies (cam: Thu, Oct 9, 2003, 8:50 pm) re: Win98 can't read Win95 floppies (Lee: Thu, Oct 9, 2003, 11:54 pm) re: Win98 can't read Win95 floppies (Stan: Fri, Oct 10, 2003, 2:29 pm) re: Win98 can't read Win95 floppies (Lee: Fri, Oct 10, 2003, 11:00 pm) re: Win98 can't read Win95 floppies (phantom: Fri, Oct 10, 2003, 6:11 am) re: Win98 can't read Win95 floppies (Stan: Fri, Oct 10, 2003, 2:26 pm) re: Win98 can't read Win95 floppies (JmC: Sat, Oct 11, 2003, 12:43 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum