Question: Hello, I have two computers. A running Win 2k and the other running Win 98. I have a floopy disk can only be accessed through the Win 98. I like him on Win 2k computer when trying to open it, it will say the disk is not formatted. I do not know how this could happen because I try other floopy disk and doing well, but this only happen with just one disk. Does anyone have this weird problem? Thanks
Darno
Re:well, I know it's just one disk but I was just really curious cause I never had any problem like this before. I don't mind getting a new disk but like I said I was just curious. Thanks anyway for all the helps.
Darno
Re:Oh, I don't know, once in a while I feel good about being able to salvage a "bad" disk of data for someone.
Re:I had the same problem of computer not reading a disk right and it was on the same computer it happened when trying to make the rescue disk with the rescue program that comes with a zip drive that lets you make a floppy an zip disk for emergency start up
only way I could get it to read it was to let the program do a full format on the floppy if I did just the quick format wouldn't read the floppy etc and I tried it on about 3 different floppy disk same thing on them all
Re:If it was me:
1 floppy => trow it away
100 floppy => trow away the FDD
Re:Well, I'd chalk it up to an anomaly and wouldn't lose any sleep over it unless every floppy won't read in Win2k. If it's just that one, then for whatever reason it's just not readin in that O/S. If it's more floppies, then you have something to be concerned about.
Re:Some floppy drives are just not capaple of reading ALL floppies. Sometimes a disk is a little worn out or defective. A good floppy drive will write and read it but a cheaper drive will not.
I use an Alpine because they usually will read and write about any disk. Like sometimes my friend's Mitsumi floppy can't read a disk from his Sony digi cam — but the Alpine does.
All I can say is put the floppy that is reading the disk in the system you use the most. It must be a good one.
Re:guy: I did copy the floopy to another floopy and I tried to reformat the floopy in the Win 2K box but it didn't work. It's really weird cause I thought my floopy drive was defective but I have 2 O/S in My Win 2K machine (dual booting) and it was fine under Win ME. So I don't think it's the floopy drive and I also don't think the floopy cause the disk is just working good under win 98 and win ME. About the alignment that you said, it does make sense but I can't reformat the disk in win 2k. Do you have any clue what causes this to happen? thanks
Darno
Re:It simply means the floppy drives you have are slightly out of alignment with each other. I'm not sure where the disk that won't work in Win2k was recorded, but wherever it was, the Win2K machine's floppy drive is more picky about reading the tracks if they don't align correctly. You said this only happens with one floppy, so I would just make a copy of the floppy on a different diskette and try it on both machines. If that works ok, get rid of the old floppy or format it again in the Windows 2000 machine.
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