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re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks'
Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 4:11 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by John A. Johnson
(2 messages posted)
I have experienced similar problems trying to read floppies with XP. Sometimes when
I insert a second floppy after reading the directory of the first floppy, hitting
F5 will properly refresh the window, showing the directory of the second floppy.
But sometimes it will not. The directory of the first floppy continues to appear,
and nothing short of a system reboot will fix the problem. I have also experienced
the problem of disk corruption that Debbie describes below. I have experienced this
problem regularly on two different machines running XP, so I hope someone can soon
suggest a solution!
On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 at 12:42 pm, Debbie Rockhill wrote:
>My problem seems to be similar, but has caused some file corruption on a floppy.
> I've had 2 different problems.
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>If I open a file (or just the directory) on floppy #1, then take that floppy out
>and insert a second floppy #2 (and again, either open a file, or just look at the
>directory), then reinsert floppy #1, it tells me that floppy 1 is not formatted.
> (I can open the floppy on a different computer, so it is formatted).
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>2nd problem: I did the same thing (opened a file on floppy #1, then opened a file
>on floppy 2, reinserted floppy #1 and tried to save a document I had changed).
Instead
>of saving the document, it rewrote the directory of floppy #1 with the directory
>of floppy #2 and I lost some of the original files on floppy #1.
>
>Has anyone had a similar experience? Know any way to stop this? It has only occured
>since I started using Windows XP.
>
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