Hi,here is some tips for you to consider:

1.Check your cmos setting,floppy 1.44?
2.Check your floppy disk 720k or 1.44?
3.Try your disk in other machine
4.Clean the drive
5.Try format the disk under dos,see the capacity it shows
6.Maybe your drive,disk,or win95 corrupted
7.Virus scan

Good luck
jingjiang Zhang

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> From: William Patton <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [PCSOFT] Creating System Disk -Win95
> Date: Sunday, December 20, 1998 7:05 PM
>
> Date: December 20, 1998
> From: William Patton
> Subject: Creating System Disk -Win95
>
> Can someone tell me why I absolutely cannot create a system disk in
Win95a
> using the method "create
> disk" in Add/Remove programs.  Problem is always the same .  Have tryed
many
> times.  Have freshly formatted floppy and it always gets to 60% file
> transfer then says : general disk failure.  I try reading the disk in
> explorer and it says the disk is not formatted so I begin again.  I have
> even formatted under dos. Also, I have closed all other running programs
in
> the system tray including antivirus. Answers would be appreciated.
William
> Patton  [log in to unmask]
>
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