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re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 4:06 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ed
(580 messages posted)
A floppy disk which is formatted for use in Win XP might not be usable with Win 98,
because Win XP floppies can use either the NTFS file system or the FAT system.
Probably your DOS format program is failing because it cannot recognise the data
structure of the floppy disk, because it's formatted as NTFS.
Buy some floppy disks which are unformatted, or are formatted for FAT.
Ed
On Monday, May 21, 2007 at 2:08 pm, Bobbie wrote:
>I have windows 98 and a working floppy drive, 3.5". If the disk has info on it,
>I can read it. If the disk is blank and formatted, I cannot read it. The disks
>I have were formatted in Win XP. I tried to reformat these disks on hte Win 98
computer
>and the system does about 3/4 of the formatting and then says the disk is damaged
>and cannot be formatted.
>
>Any suggestions? I have tried nearly 15 different disks.
>
>Bobbie
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