Re: ERROR WHEN I TRY TO READ A FLOPPY DISK
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:00:24 -0700
hotdog wrote:
WITH SOME FREQUENCE WHEN I TRY TO READ A FLOPPY DISK ON WINDOWS XP
PROFFESIONAL, APPEAR THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE "THE DISK HAS NOT FORMAT,
DO YOU WANT FORMNAT?.
SOME TIMES CAN READ A FLOPPY DISK IN NATURAL FORM.
OTHER ERROR IS WHEN THE FLOOPY DISK HAS WORD DOCUMENTS (.doc), THE
SYSTEM CONVERTS IN "APPLICATION FILE"
SOMEBODY COULD HELP ME WITH THIS?
THANKS A LOT.
Ouch! Please don't yell at us. We can hear you if you type normally, in
mixed case.
Are these floppies that were created on older versions of Windows, and when
you try to read them in Windows XP, you get the message "Disk is not
formatted The disk in drive A is not formatted. Do you want to format it
now?"
If so you are running into the media descriptor byte problem described here:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=140060
The solution is to format another diskette on your Windows XP machine, take
that diskette and the one with a problem to a friend's Windows 98 machine,
and copy the old one to the new one. The new one will now be readable on
your XP machine. Repeat for each floppy you are having trouble with
--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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