re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 7:39 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by dhm (990 messages posted) Will one of those diskettes format in someone else's computer? Will a new diskette format in yours? Buy a head cleaning diskette. About $3. Such a one has a disk of fabric in it and a bottle of a magic fluid that you are to put one one radial streak on the diskette. If the magic cleaning fluid runs out I find that alcohol works. Put it in the drive and try to access A: a half dozen times. Then the head will be clean. Also consider that a new floppy drive is $15. On Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 7:04 pm, Bobbie wrote: >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 > > > Written in response to: re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 7:04 pm) Responses to this message: re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 8:44 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