had best see if his mobby will format and have both a Mouse & Keyboard (another area which is being slaughtered in favor of USB). Those who like to run diagnostic programs, etc. Yet their USB drivers to work in DOS mode are in themselves buggy. Good luck - and this problem is occurring more and more with the newer Motherboards which are trying to do away with Floppies anyway. Sometimes disks may use a more exotic file system.
Next boot into "Safe Mode" if the Floppy will format in Safe Mode then it is Windows communicating with the Hardware but failing. Most floppy disks used by PCs use the FAT12 file system format, which imposes certain practical defaults on the logical geometry in order to be recognizable by all operating systems. If you can do two (2) things then it is the cause of a Window conflict with the motherboard, memory, controller, or the bios.ġst: boot up in a REAL Dos prompt with a Floppy. How to verify if it the cause of Windows or a bad floppy drive. I've seen dozens of floppies being ruined in one machine and most can be revived on another XP machine. Has nothing to do with the Floppy but it is either a driver conflict or address conflict. There are some other less commonly used format command switches, too, like /A:size which lets you choose a custom allocation unit size, /F:size which specifies the size of the floppy disk that's to be formatted, /T:tracks which specifies the number of tracks per disk side, and /N:sectors which specifies the number of sectors per track. Microsoft blames the floppies too and people pass on bad data. Those same floppies can be formated in several other XP PC's. This is a Linux utility program that is used to format floppy disks. I've seen computers, Windows XP Pro to be precise in which you can't format a floppy. Reminds of going to a doctor, he blames "old age".
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