XP pro can't read floppy in drive A

[roelmcebu]

I clean upgraded to winXP SP1 from win98SE.
My problem now is the floppy drive cannot read my floppy disks. I tried reading them in a win98SE machine and no problem was encountered.

I tried formatting one on winXP SP1 yet it still cannot read/recognize the floppy or the data in it. It will always say "...disk not formatted.." It can read floppy disks before under win98SE.

Is it a bug in winXP SP1? My work around is the flash disk...but what about my other data in my floppy disks?

 

[franklin97355]

When you formatted the disk were you sucessful (no errors) and could you see the disk afterwards? It might be a bad drive.

 

[masterchicker]

You may have a faulty floppy drive. Try cleaning it with a floppy drive cleaner.

 

[roelmcebu]

It was working perfectly under win98SE. When I upgraded to winXPpro SP1...it now SUDDENLY is faulty? or dirty?

Anyway, I'll try cleaning and/or replacing the drive with a new one.

Thanks.

By the way, here are the error messages upon inserting a floppy disk into the drive:
1. The disk in drive A is not formatted.
I attempted to format the diskette....
2. Windows was unable to complete the format.
3. The disk in drive A cannot be formatted.

**the diskette is not write protected.

 

[jurgen36]

This seems to be a common problem with XP. Try setting your motherboard Cmoss to 2.8 Mb for the floppy drive. This has worked previously on 400+ machines at our Uni. Same symptoms, drive works normally on W98, WME or Linux but not on XP. Why this seems to fix it I do not pretend to know. Regards

Jurgen