re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks -- Complete crap from Ed Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 6:48 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by DNA (552 messages posted) "....because Win XP floppies can use either the NTFS file system or the FAT system." You can't even format 2 GB flash drives as "NTFS" from XP's Format dialog box, never mind a floppy! >;^D ... I oughta know, I buy cheap 2 GB pocket USB flash drives that for some reason come formatted in FAT16 instead of FAT32, so I re-format them in FAT32 before I use them... Floppies are only formatted as FAT12 in M$ operating systems, from DOS to Vista. I'd say the reported '9x-to-NT' floppy incompatibilities are in fact 'drive-to-drive' incompatibilities... If I had a dollar for every floppy disk I've seen that read/wrote in one drive but not another, for no particular reason, over the last 20+ years, I'd have been able to retire already! >;^) ------------------------------------------------------------- Athlon 1.1 - 768 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Home Athlon 3000+ 64 - 1024 MB RAM = 98SE (@768 MB RAM) & XP Pro IBM ThinkPad PIII 900 - 384 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Pro SP2 Windows 2000 Server in the basement Written in response to: re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks -- Complete crap from Ed (gewg_: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 4:46 pm) Responses to this message: Thread hijack: FAT16/FAT32 on a thumbdrive (gewg_: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 8:57 am) 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