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| 31982 | 2002-01-20 02:22:00 | Has anyone else experienced problems with Floppy disks not working between Win Me and Win 2000? Messages come up like - no disk in Drive or Disk not formatted etc. This is very annoying as I am working between Desktop and Notebook. Our PC manufacturer has been contacted (PC Company) but their call-back service has rung about problems with Office 2000 and the storage size of a floppy disc! No solutions to my problem! Does anyone have any advice? |
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| 31983 | 2002-01-20 02:51:00 | It's more likely to be hardware than software. The head assembly on one drive could be badly aligned. Take a few disks written on each to someone else's machine and see if they can be read on that. You might be able to work by (unconditional, not fast) formatting *all* your floppies on one of the drives. Try it on a couple of disks (on each machine) and experiment. Unfortunately, Murphy's law says that the one 'wrong' will be the expensive (or unreplaceable one). |
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| 31984 | 2002-01-20 04:36:00 | Don't know much about Win2000, but maybe the floppy is being formatted in NTFS (as opposed to FAT32), so WinME won't be able to read it. JM |
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| 31985 | 2002-01-20 06:54:00 | Each Drive works fine indepenently with other PCs running WindowsNT/95. It's just when I go between Me and 2000. | Guest (0) | ||
| 31986 | 2002-01-21 00:12:00 | Sounds like hardware. question is which machine is it?? if they are both from the same company, get them to fix it, I'm assuming that both machines are under warrantee. demand a replacement floppy drive from the vendor, they're cheap and easy to replace. |
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| 31987 | 2002-01-21 05:54:00 | DOS floppies are DOS floppies. They are not formatted as NTFS, FAT32, or even FAT16. They have been FAT12 since they were 180k, in the format inherited from CP/M. Yes, if they are under guarantee, tell them to fix it. Does this incompatibility work both ways? Are these floppies freshly written (not written months ago and stored on top of the monitor near the degaussing loop)? |
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| 31988 | 2002-01-21 08:38:00 | Looking through the Disk driver properties the Win Me Input/Output range = 03F2-03F5. In Win 2000 Input/Output range = 03F0-03F5. Could this make a difference? Is it the driver? |
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