Win2K wont read FDD

Windows 2K each time you click on the floppy it wants to format it because it can?t be read. The disks work fine in another PC. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the hardware. It will even start up on a WIN98 startup disk. The thing is that if you click on the floppy with no disk in, it will have the same message. Windows is the culprit and is there a fix that?s not to dramatic.