I can't format my floppy, WindowsXP?

Question

Ok, I am not dumb, I consider myself pretty tech savvy, but I cannot figure this out. Obviously I know how to format a disk, by right mouse clicking on the a: drive and clicking format and going through the stps, but I get a Windows message that says the disk cannot be formatted.

So I opened the command prompt window and typed format a:/x
Doing that I got:
The type of the file system is RAW.
The new file system is FAT.
Formatting 1.44M
Invalid Media or track 0 bad - disk unusable

Oh, and typing format a: /FS:FAT/x gives me the same error

It is a brand new floppy, I just bought a brand new box of floppies.
And please don't tell me to use some more sophisticated media because believe me I would if I could, but I can't, it's for school, and I have to use floppies.

I am not running any antivirus software so that is not preventing me from reformatting the hard drive.

So if anyone has a different solution, I would love to hear it.

Answer 1

Can your A: drive READ any disks?