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From: murray J (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/17/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:10:13 -0800

I have a floppy a drive and am running XP yet every time
I get the message to format the disk, and even trying to
format the disk gets an errror cannot format this is a
standard 1.44 floppy

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