Floppy disk drive

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Patrick

Hi can you help, when Im in work I use win2k but a home I
use win98 and when I do work on the works computer and
take it home my computer tells me "the disk is not
formated" and visa versa it also happens with other OS
when I use the disk I have saved files on (saved on win2k)
I dont know what is wrong I have even tried it oon a
laptop running XP and it ould not run a powerpoint show
from the disk but when I copied it to C it worked ok it
also does that with ever disk I use.

Any help would be great becausei dont know whats going
wrong

Cheers
Patrick
 
Hi Patrick,

When I was in a similar situation I did the following and, after doing so, never got
"The disk is not formatted" messages again. YMMV.

- Purchased high-quality disks
- Formatted the disks on a Win2000 machine before using them

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Carrie Garth, Microsoft MVP for Windows 2000
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: "Patrick" <murraypatrick AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk>
: Wrote in message : Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 8:59 AM
: Hi can you help, when Im in work I use win2k but a home I
: use win98 and when I do work on the works computer and
: take it home my computer tells me "the disk is not
: formated" and visa versa it also happens with other OS
: when I use the disk I have saved files on (saved on win2k)
: I dont know what is wrong I have even tried it oon a
: laptop running XP and it ould not run a powerpoint show
: from the disk but when I copied it to C it worked ok it
: also does that with ever disk I use.
:
: Any help would be great becausei dont know whats going
: wrong
:
: Cheers
: Patrick
 
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