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DAVID
THE FILE SYSTEM ON MY 3.5" FLOPPY SUDDENLY SAYS RAW. I
CAN'T ACCESS ANY OF MY FLOPPIES. HOW DO I CHANGE IT BACK
TO FAT.
THANKS
CAN'T ACCESS ANY OF MY FLOPPIES. HOW DO I CHANGE IT BACK
TO FAT.
THANKS
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Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)
You can't, at least now without destroying whatever was on those disks but
they may not be inaccessible. If you have access to a Windows 9x machine,
95, 98, ME, you might be able to read the disks on that machine, if it has a
CD burning copy the files on the floppy disk to a CD-R or RW disk and that
should give you access to your files.
What you are experiencing may simply be that XP is unable to read those
disks, hence it sees them as raw so the above may well work for you.
they may not be inaccessible. If you have access to a Windows 9x machine,
95, 98, ME, you might be able to read the disks on that machine, if it has a
CD burning copy the files on the floppy disk to a CD-R or RW disk and that
should give you access to your files.
What you are experiencing may simply be that XP is unable to read those
disks, hence it sees them as raw so the above may well work for you.
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david
Michael:
I guess I said this wrong. Each floppy I have uses FAT as
its file system. When i go to My Computer and right click
on the floppy drive icon. the file system shown there is
RAW and not FAT. The computer can't read any of my
floppies. Is there away to change the computer's file
system on the A drive back to FAT?
Thanks
David
I guess I said this wrong. Each floppy I have uses FAT as
its file system. When i go to My Computer and right click
on the floppy drive icon. the file system shown there is
RAW and not FAT. The computer can't read any of my
floppies. Is there away to change the computer's file
system on the A drive back to FAT?
Thanks
David
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Sharon F
The computer can't read any of my
floppies. Is there away to change the computer's file
system on the A drive back to FAT?
The file system is on the disk, not the drive. The A: drive does not have
its own file system.
You need to determine if the floppy disks are still good or if the floppy
drive is in trouble and its having trouble reading disks. The heads could
be misaligned to the point that drive appears to be working but it really
isn't. Some things to try: Test the drive with a fresh new floppy disk.
Test your existing floppies on other drives.