- Joined
- Jul 26, 2002
- Location
- Cape May, NJ
Hi guys. From what I've read and researched this is a Win XP issue but I haven't been able to find a fix. Any help you guys can offer, I appreciate greatly. Here is the problem:
Any floppy I put in gets this message "this diskette needs to be formated" I press ok, and it attempts, then says "windows was unable to complete the format" This occurs with format and quick format. Now I know the floppies are good because I can format them on a 2nd XP machine, they have data on them that can be read by the 2nd machine and I tried with new and old floppies.
XP Home was installed on a clean hdd. I tried uninstalling in device manager and letting XP reinstall on reboot. Still get that stoopid message. Oh it gets better, I put in a different fdd and the same thing occurs. I've double and triple checked the cables too. I'm at my wits end here.
Many, many thanks in advance for your help!
Any floppy I put in gets this message "this diskette needs to be formated" I press ok, and it attempts, then says "windows was unable to complete the format" This occurs with format and quick format. Now I know the floppies are good because I can format them on a 2nd XP machine, they have data on them that can be read by the 2nd machine and I tried with new and old floppies.
XP Home was installed on a clean hdd. I tried uninstalling in device manager and letting XP reinstall on reboot. Still get that stoopid message. Oh it gets better, I put in a different fdd and the same thing occurs. I've double and triple checked the cables too. I'm at my wits end here.
Many, many thanks in advance for your help!