re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' Friday, February 13, 2004 at 2:48 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Tx_DreamWeaver (1 messages posted) My problem is that I can't open most of my floppies, even the newest ones, since I bought a PC with XP on it. When I open them all it has in the list to the right is a README.TXT Text Document. If I refresh it says the floppy needs to be formatted, which you do NOT want to do or you will lose what's on it. This is a new PC, so no chance of a lose connection or bad floppy drive. What now? On Wednesday, January 14, 2004 at 9:48 am, dylan_73 wrote: > >I just fixed this on an NT4 machine. It was a loose floppy cable. This fault is >caused by line 34 not connecting and will be a bad connector, bad or loose cable, >or bad floppy drive. Best to check the cable first. > Written in response to: re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (dylan_73: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 at 9:48 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (dylan_73: Friday, February 13, 2004 at 4:46 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (melanie r: Mon, Jan 6, 2003, 7:11 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (Bob B: Mon, Jan 6, 2003, 7:14 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (melanie r: Mon, Jan 6, 2003, 7:19 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (Tom Swanson: Mon, Jan 6, 2003, 11:57 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (Debbie Rockhill: Wed, Mar 12, 2003, 12:42 pm) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (John A. Johnson: Sun, May 18, 2003, 4:11 pm) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (Trinnyg: Sun, Jun 15, 2003, 5:56 pm) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (stefan: Sat, Jun 28, 2003, 4:08 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (MasterBoot: Mon, Oct 6, 2003, 1:50 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (dylan_73: Wed, Jan 14, 2004, 9:48 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (Tx_DreamWeaver: Fri, Feb 13, 2004, 2:48 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (dylan_73: Fri, Feb 13, 2004, 4:46 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (Mike: Thu, Feb 19, 2004, 7:23 pm) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (Nalin Saxena: Wed, Feb 25, 2004, 2:58 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (FrustratedMonkey: Fri, Jan 21, 2005, 8:06 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (ComputerUser: Tue, Jan 11, 2005, 8:35 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (BrokenMind: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 8:51 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (Joe Sweeney: Wed, Jan 26, 2005, 2:29 pm) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (Zzzzz: Thu, Feb 2, 2006, 5:10 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (patrick: Wed, Mar 15, 2006, 1:06 am) 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 XP Discussion Forum