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Floppy disk drivers for Windows XP

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  • 30-08-2003 3:12pm
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    lukin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭


    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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    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,761 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    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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    Oriel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    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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