XP won't read floppy disk created on Windows 98 system

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XP won't read floppy disk created on Windows 98 system
help plz
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XP has *no* issues with reading win98 floppies...
one of the drives has misaligned heads...
more than likely the older machine, presumably the one with win98 on it
 
XP won't read floppy disk created on Windows 98 system
help plz
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It's got nothing to do with WinXP or Win98. What you've got here is a floppy
that's gone bad through misrecording, mishandling, or whatever. If the disk
can be read on *any* machine get the data off it onto that machine and then
try transferring the data using a method *other than* a floppy disk. (USB
pen drive, CD, email, network, install the hard disk in another machine as a
slave...)
 
Take a blank floppy that was formatted on the XP computer over to the
Windows 98 system and copy the contents of the first floppy disk to it.
 
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