re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' Friday, February 13, 2004 at 4:46 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by dylan_73 (2 messages posted) New or not, it sounds like one of the aforementioned problems. Maybe a cable slipped loose in delivery? If you think it might be a software problem, try creating a boot disk on another machine, and boot your machine from it. If it can't read that, then you know it's hardware. On Friday, February 13, 2004 at 2:48 am, Tx_DreamWeaver wrote: >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? > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (Tx_DreamWeaver: Friday, February 13, 2004 at 2:48 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (Mike: Thursday, February 19, 2004 at 7:23 pm) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' (ComputerUser: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at 8:35 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