Re: FLOPPY DRIVE FILE SYSTEM

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From: david (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/29/04 

Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 05:36:19 -0700

Michael:

I guess I said this wrong. Each floppy I have uses FAT as
its file system. When i go to My Computer and right click
on the floppy drive icon. the file system shown there is
RAW and not FAT. The computer can't read any of my
floppies. Is there away to change the computer's file
system on the A drive back to FAT?

Thanks
David
>-----Original Message-----
>You can't, at least now without destroying whatever was
on those disks but
>they may not be inaccessible. If you have access to a
Windows 9x machine,
>95, 98, ME, you might be able to read the disks on that
machine, if it has a
>CD burning copy the files on the floppy disk to a CD-R
or RW disk and that
>should give you access to your files.
>
>What you are experiencing may simply be that XP is
unable to read those
>disks, hence it sees them as raw so the above may well
work for you.
>
>--
>Michael Solomon MS-MVP
>Windows Shell/User
>Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
>DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/
>
>"DAVID" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:13a8101c4441a$55e4e840$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>> THE FILE SYSTEM ON MY 3.5" FLOPPY SUDDENLY SAYS RAW. I
>> CAN'T ACCESS ANY OF MY FLOPPIES. HOW DO I CHANGE IT
BACK
>> TO FAT.
>> THANKS
>
>
>.
>

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