re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 4:06 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ed (659 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 Written in response to: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Monday, May 21, 2007 at 2:08 pm) Responses to this message: re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks -- Complete crap from Ed (gewg_: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 4:46 pm) re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 7:04 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Mon, May 21, 2007, 2:08 pm) re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (gewg_: Mon, May 21, 2007, 3:58 pm) re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Tue, May 22, 2007, 7:02 pm) re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Keith Stanier: Tue, May 22, 2007, 4:09 am) re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Tue, May 22, 2007, 6:38 am) re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (gewg_: Tue, May 22, 2007, 8:20 am) re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Ed: Tue, May 22, 2007, 4:06 pm) re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks -- Complete crap from Ed (gewg_: Tue, May 22, 2007, 4:46 pm) re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks -- Complete crap from Ed (DNA: Tue, May 22, 2007, 6:48 pm) Thread hijack: FAT16/FAT32 on a thumbdrive (gewg_: Wed, May 23, 2007, 8:57 am) Why FAT16?!?!? (DNA: Wed, May 23, 2007, 4:14 pm) re: Why FAT16?!?!? (gewg_: Wed, May 23, 2007, 5:35 pm) re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Tue, May 22, 2007, 7:04 pm) re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (dhm: Tue, May 22, 2007, 7:39 pm) re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Tue, May 22, 2007, 8:44 pm) re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Don: Wed, May 23, 2007, 3:06 am) re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Wed, May 23, 2007, 6:56 am) re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Wed, May 23, 2007, 3:16 pm) 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