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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.
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>Probably your DOS format program is failing because it cannot recognise the data
>structure of the floppy disk, because it's formatted as NTFS.
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>Buy some floppy disks which are unformatted, or are formatted for FAT.
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>Ed
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