re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks'
Wednesday, March 15, 2006 at 1:06 am
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Posted by patrick
(1 messages posted)
Apart from hardware problems, contrary to win 9x, I believe XP like 2000 & NT checks
the second FAT table for consistency with the first. If there is a mismatch then
the disc is unreadbale in XP and it reports that the disk needs reformatting. Uuugh!
I use Norton 7 ish disk doctor to fix 2nd FAT table problems. However I have also
seen clusters within files corrupted again with the kind suggestion that the disk
needs reformatting. Again I use Norton 7 Disk Edit to copy the file to the C drive
and Abort the duff clusters. This leaves me with a working copy of text files albeit
with holes in it. For more complex files they are probably rendered useless. I also
use multiple copies of XPs Briefcase to maintain backups of floppies say one for
odd days and one for even! ESSENTIAL!
On Thursday, February 2, 2006 at 5:10 am, Zzzzz wrote:
>I have the same problem and thought that my disks were bad, it has now happened
on
>several XP machines, I have even replaced my floppy drive twice thinking it was
a
>hardware issue. My instance seems more like a compatibility issue with XP and there
>seem to be a lot of users in the same boat...hmmm is that a bug I smell!
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