When she tries to load up from the A:/ drive it prompts her with (paraphrasing): I am not formatted, wanna format me? Caution, I might delete all your crap.
What should she do. The info on the disk is EXTREMELY imprtant.
2007-02-16 14:11:43 · 9 answers · asked by Smokey 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
This will happen when trying to use a floppy disk formatted with an older operating system on XP.
Access the floppy form a machine with DOS or Win95 & you will be able to retrieve the files by copying them onto the older PCs hard drive & then onto a different floppy which was formatted by XP.
Microsoft article :
"This problem occurs on disks that do not contain a media descriptor byte in the BIOS parameter block (BPB) of the boot sector. Some older preformatted floppy disks do not contain a media descriptor byte. Older product disks may also not have the media descriptor byte.
The media descriptor indicates the type of medium currently in a drive. With MS-DOS and Windows 95, you do not have to set the media descriptor byte. Therefore this problem does not occur with these older operating systems. "
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140060
regards,
Philip T
2007-02-16 15:16:02 · answer #1 · answered by Philip T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
May be the problem with the Floppy Disk or with Floppy Drive. Check that Floppy with another Floppy Drive. If it is working first Clean your Floppy Driver with Floppy Cleaner. Floppy Disk is not flexible.
2007-02-16 16:27:41 · answer #2 · answered by Raja A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The disk is probaly bad.... or sometimes the read/write head on a floppy drive can be aligned slightly different than another drive. That will cause one floppy drive not to read a disk created on another floppy drive. Try putting the disk in another drive to see if you get the same arror. Try it in the original drive that was used to write data to the disk.
2007-02-16 14:15:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
what that errors message potential is the irritating tension has failed the boot disk is the irritating tension the gadget disk is the irritating tension after abode windows has been put in on it you additionally can get that message in case you have have been given a floppy tension and you have left a disk in it if so eliminate it and reboot if the irritating disk has failed you will might desire to get a working laptop or pc tech to swap it for you
2016-10-02 06:45:55 · answer #4 · answered by eilermann 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Formatting will destroy the data, as you point out. Have you tried using Windows Explorer to examine the disk?
2007-02-16 14:15:47 · answer #5 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
from my experience with floppy disks (which was quite awhile ago) the same thing happened to me and the only way i could make the disk usable was to format it.
2007-02-16 14:17:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The computer can't read the disk, it is bad.
2007-02-16 14:20:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
wow.. floppy disc.. try to insert the disc a few times if not.. prob. the worst happened : (
2007-02-16 14:16:49 · answer #8 · answered by MoooMoo 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋