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43264	2002-04-11 05:34:00	I have WinXP running on my machine however I find that Floppies formatted by Win98 are not able to be read in my A: drive.Is this to be expected?.Disks formatted by WinXP are fine.	Guest (0)
43265	2002-04-11 06:01:00	No. Unless they are W98 Backup disks. I don't know whether it still continues, but Microsoft have a history of making every version of Backup not able to read disks made by previous versions. They're only 'customers' out there. If the disks were formatted on another computer, the most likely cause would be that the head alignments of the 2 drives differ.	Guest (0)
43266	2002-04-11 21:07:00	I stand to be corrected (as always) but how did WinXP get installed? I mean did you install as FAT32 or as an NT system? I have read somewhere that if the WINXP is setup as NT, then it will not be able to read any WIN9X disks. I do not know how true this is and whether it is restricted to floppies or both floppies and CDs'. Can anyone answer this question too?	Guest (0)
43267	2002-04-11 21:22:00	Looks like file system is set up as NTFS. This being the case can it be changed to Fat32 and is it desirable to do so? I can live with the fact that some floppies I wont be able to use provided I am getting some advantage from being NTFS.	Guest (0)
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