Re: Cannot read any disk in floppy drive

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On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:10:12 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
<kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 15 Dec 2007 01:06:11 -0600, Plato <|@|.|> wrote:

=?Utf-8?B?YmlsbCBiLg==?= wrote:

My OS is XP Pro on both computers. Comp1 will not read any floppy disk; it
does not see the disk in the drive and commands "insert disk." when I click

XP may NOT like any disks formatted w/win9X.


If these diskettes were formatted by Windows 9x, this is the media
descriptor byte problem described at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=140060

If they were formatted by 9x, I would just throw them away, they are so old and
decrepit.


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