William Patton Wrote:

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]

My suggestion would be try another disk. It sounds like the disk you are
using has a bad sector or sectors. I found this to be true of about a
disk I was trying to use. I ran Norton Disk Doctor and sure enough there
were many bad sectors. <smile> All ten of them right in a row. I believe
that if the boot sector is bad you will receive the message that you
can't write to the disk or it isn't formatted.

Sincerely,

Frank Suszka
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