re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 7:04 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Bobbie (7 messages posted) The disks I am using were purchased formatted prior to 2000. CompUSA had a big sale and I bought about 1500 of these 1.44 mb disks. I tried using some that had info on them that I had saved back in the early 2000's when I was still using Win98 and those disks did not work either. How do I, or can I, format a disk with the FAT system on a WIN XP machine? Bobbie On Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 4:06 pm, Ed wrote: >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 > > > Written in response to: re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Ed: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 4:06 pm) Responses to this message: re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (dhm: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 7:39 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