There have been reports that I have read about XP
having a problem with "floppy disk is not properly
formatted" error even though the disk have been
formatted, even in an XP system.

Go to the Device Manager, Floppy Disk
Controllers, Properties and selected Disable.
Shutdown, reboot, enable the controller; this should
solve the problem.

HTH,
tomas santos
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On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 00:01:53 -0500,

   Stephen R Stanfield <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Subject: XP Home/formatting drives
>
> suddenly i was unable to save data on floppy.  after
> replacing floppy drive and cord, same problem exists
> "floppy disk in drive A is not formatted or has been
> formatted for a Macintosh".  when i would try to
format
> windows could not format.  also could not read
anything
> from drive A (floppy) tonite i was going to load pics
> from digital to HD and error message "E drive not
> formatted"  referring to memory stick.  could this be
> windows xp problem.  took to my daughters computer and
> printed pics.  any suggestions?
>
> AMD Athlon 2100+  1.048 GB sddram  40 GB HD  Windows
XP
> Home OS

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