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I can't read floppy disk infor saved prior to XP update.
Anyone know how to access old data on 3.5 floppys
Anyone know how to access old data on 3.5 floppys
Pungo said:I can't read floppy disk infor saved prior to XP update.
Anyone know how to access old data on 3.5 floppys
recall alone in these forums have asked for help on this. Do a google searchBailey said:"XP will happily read old floppy disks. If you cannot
read them then either your floppy disks or your
disk drive may be marginal."
LOL, right. Windows xp is sucking, my self, melissa and more than I can
computer and neither worked. Replaced the cables 3 times, the power cord andI my self have tried 2 brands now, sony and the mitsumi floppy on my new
mean time may want to search these forums if you have not already. AsBailey said:Thanks for the reply Pegasus,
I willg et the disk thiseve when I get home and can work on it. In the
xp machine tho toss it in a machine that is currently using windows 98 soBtw my mitsumi drive works perfectly when I use the same cables from the
from my device manager (controller and Drive) tried changing the drivers tojgjbj said:I also have had problems as of late with my floppy drive. I've removed it
I put in a win ME start-up disk and did get the following errors reported.
"The following file is missing or corrupted, Command.com"
a valid FAT or Fat32 format". I am using NTFS on win xp pro 160 gig. Ofjgjbj said:got the win 98 boot disk, selected option #1 w/cdrom support. Message "Not
are a few that are a few that I can't on the xp machine but can on the MEIt seems that now I am able to open more floppies that before, but there
try to access this disk the XP machine says to reformat the disk, on the MEFor example, On one disk are two files a bmp. and a word pad file. When I
Your thoughts?
necessarily see them but jnow they are there. All text file are readable. Ijgjbj said:Downloaded and made the disk on another machine.
Booted with it on my XP machine, the FDD is one day out of the wrapper.
Can see all files using edit at the A:\ prompt except for .bmp. Not
to access my 'a' drive when launched. Could I be looking in the wrong place.Still get the same results after booting into XP.
Now for another potato in the stew....I've noticed that Outlook 2000 tries
Thanks for your help
jgjbj