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! >;^)

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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)

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