Old problem: floppy reports unformatted diskette - help please

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Wolf Kirchmeir

I know this is an old problem, but I've mislaid the asnwer, so would
someone please advise?

My grandson in Texas called me about the following:

Inserting a supposedly good floppy diskette produces an error message,
"Diskette unformatted, do you want to format it now?" or words to that
effect. He has WinXP Home, and AFAIK has applied no fixes or patches. He
is on dial-up, so installing an SP would take a long, long time. :-(

Would appreciate explanation of what's gone wrong, and of course a fix.

Thanks very much for any help.
 
I'm guessing one or the other floppy drives is bad. (head offset) Symptoms
are floppy works in the drive it was last written from but not in another
drive.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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:
|I know this is an old problem, but I've mislaid the asnwer, so would
| someone please advise?
|
| My grandson in Texas called me about the following:
|
| Inserting a supposedly good floppy diskette produces an error message,
| "Diskette unformatted, do you want to format it now?" or words to that
| effect. He has WinXP Home, and AFAIK has applied no fixes or patches. He
| is on dial-up, so installing an SP would take a long, long time. :-(
|
| Would appreciate explanation of what's gone wrong, and of course a fix.
|
| Thanks very much for any help.
 
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