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Thread ID: 112100	2010-08-24 01:01:00	Windows 7 hates my floppy drive and disks	Agent_24 (57)	Press F1

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1131177	2010-08-24 01:01:00	Just when I thought I was getting used to Windows 7 after beating the taskbar into submission, with Win7 taskbar tweaker so it looks and works just like the good old XP one.... Windows 7 refuses to format my floppy disks! At first I thought the drive was stuffed, so I swapped it - same problem. Tried a 3rd drive, no good there. It was all getting suspicious so I tried a known good USB floppy - same problem! Verified the disk was perfectly OK on another machine, tried again, no go. So by this time I knew something was wrong... Booted into good old XP, tried formatting, WORKED PERFECTLY. What is going on here??	Agent_24 (57)
1131178	2010-08-24 01:24:00	I have a HP USB server floppy drive I use when I require floppy disk access, works no problems here! Is XP part of a dual boot on the same hardware?	SolMiester (139)
1131179	2010-08-24 01:56:00	Er..haven't ever needed to try a floppy on a Win7 system. Perhaps it's saying what is this old thing you have inserted??	pctek (84)
1131180	2010-08-24 02:09:00	My Win 7 formats a floppy ok for what it's worth. Does Device Manager say 'Standard floppy disk controller' is working properly?	Terry Porritt (14)
1131181	2010-08-24 02:18:00	Yeah, I had similar problems getting my punch cards to work under Win7. Got it eventually though. Did you check that all drivers are installed correctly? It may also be an odd floppy-related BIOS setting that WinXP and Win7 interpret differently.	inphinity (7274)
1131182	2010-08-24 02:30:00	Bill Gates want you to buy everything new ..... perhaps they would do away with the keyboard :rolleyes:	Nomad (952)
1131183	2010-08-24 02:48:00	I have a HP USB server floppy drive I use when I require floppy disk access, works no problems here! Is XP part of a dual boot on the same hardware? Yes, dual boot, so exactly the same hardware. A standard 1.44MB floppy drive on an MSI 790GX-G65 motherboard. My Win 7 formats a floppy ok for what it's worth. Does Device Manager say 'Standard floppy disk controller' is working properly? No problems in device manager. Yeah, I had similar problems getting my punch cards to work under Win7. Got it eventually though. Did you check that all drivers are installed correctly? It may also be an odd floppy-related BIOS setting that WinXP and Win7 interpret differently. If there is a driver problem then Windows managed to screw it up itself, floppy disk drive support has been included in ... oh everything? since.. forever? In BIOS the floppy drive is set to enabled, and the correct capacity is selected.	Agent_24 (57)
1131184	2010-08-24 03:27:00	I would assume that you checked MY Computer to see that the floppy has been identified.	Bryan (147)
1131185	2010-08-24 03:36:00	Looks like its an issue, esp with AMD systems. forums.techarena.in It may also be a bug as it says above It is absolutely a Windows 7 bug. I have three computers, all with AMD processors, that run Vista 32 and 64 bit with no problems. Upon doing a clean install of Windows 7 RC1, the problem of not being able to do a full format of a floppy appears	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1131186	2010-08-24 03:48:00	Interesting, but the post straight after that someone used an Intel system and had the same problem. Just to see if the problem was caused by an AMD bug, I built an Intel system with an i7 820 and an MSI P55 GD65 motherboard. It worked once, or appeared to work, and so I thought I had discovered evidence for the problem belonging to AMD. A few days later I tried it again and it did not work. I proceeded to uninstall all the drivers and apps that I had installed in the meantime, and that did not help. So, I wiped the drive and installed Windows 7 64bit again. Again the floppy will not format. It will appear to do a quick format, but it does not do it correctly, and the floppy is corrupted.	Agent_24 (57)
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