Floppy disk drive not reading disks

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Kat

I have a satelite 2400 laptop running on Windows XP I have
only used the floppy disk drive a few times. Now when I go
to use it, no matter what disk I insert, it tells me the
disk is not formatted. I can use the disk in other
computers and it can read the information on it without
any trouble. When I say yes to format the disk it gets
half way through the process and says it can not be
completed.

Your help would be greatly appreciated
thanks
kat
 
My personal experience was, I installed XP and had the same problem as you.
I tried every suggestion I could find, including changing floppy drives 3 or
4 times. Nothing helped. I have come to the conclusion that some XP disks
have faulty floppy drivers, as, some people have no problem with floppies
and others do. I have found information that this problem is recognized and
is supposed to be addressed in SP2.

I was able to resolve the problem on my machine by installing the 3-mode
driver that you can find from the following link. The article is rather
wordy and the instructions are difficult to follow but, it worked for me.
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]&rnum=1

HTH, JAX


hsmcconx said:
Upgraded to XP a few months ago, had to upgrade a lot of stuff in the
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process, but never looked at the floppy drive. Finally, the other day had
occasion to use it and it won't work. When I try to access a floppy, I get
the message
 
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