Floppy disk drivers for Windows XP

lukin · 2003-08-30 14:12:37

Where can I download drivers for a floppy disk disk on a Windows XP PC? When I put in a floppy it says "The disk in the drive is not formatted. Do you want to format now? Yes/No"

30-08-2003 02:12PM

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Where can I download drivers for a floppy disk disk on a Windows XP PC?
When I put in a floppy it says "The disk in the drive is not formatted. Do you want to format now? Yes/No"

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#2 30-08-2003 05:45PM

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start - run - cmd - format a: /autotest

test the FDD to see if it will boot from a floppy disk (to test the drive) - if a drive is misaligned then disks formatted in it may not be read in a differend drive even if a particular disk can be read in both.

driver should not be needed - perhaps delete the FDD from device manager and let windows put it back

antivirus etc...

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#3 02-09-2003 03:17PM

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As far as I know, you shouldn't need drivers at all for both floppy as CD-ROMs in DOS - sounds more like a hardware config problem to me.

Did you build the PC yourself?

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